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Plot Summary:
Anna Bell is a successful, wealthy but burnt out rock singer. After breaking up with her boyfriend Craig Cane, she retreats to the country property that she's owned for several years, but never had time to visit. She wants to relax and write some new songs, but Mike, her manager, tries to influence her to go back to London. Feeding her pills and alcohol, he pushes her to keep in the spotlight and keep her career moving.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher
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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:
Similar in 89%
Deadly Obsession (1988)
Plot Summary:
A psycho college janitor threatens to start killing female students if he isn't given a million dollars.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 79%
Unfinished (2022)
Plot Summary:
Writer Zora Matthews is the daughter of famous author Thomas Morgan Matthews who died a year ago. Both Zora and Thomas suffer from schizophrenia. After a fight with husband Drew, Zora escapes to her father's hideaway house in beautiful Topanga Canyon. There Zora is introduced to bartender Eddie, his wife Lorena, and handyman Amadi. They all talk cryptically about how Zora's father changed their world. The stress triggers Zora's schizophrenia, and her dreams become horrific as she slowly discovers that her father's past included grisly murder and suicide, and the ghosts of his actions are back to haunt her and drive her insane.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 75%
Naakt over de Schutting (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rick, who runs a pinball arcade, lets a room to Penny, a young teacher and karate fan. Penny gets to know Lilly, a singer who has just been hired with her friend Ed to act in a film. But Lilly soon discovers that the movie they are involved in is nothing else but a dirty one. In disgust, she runs away from the set. Shortly afterward, the owner of the film studio is found murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Like a Moth to a Flame (2009)
Plot Summary:
An erotically charged thriller composed of three short films. In Our Darkest Moments mixes wry humor and tense drama as it chronicles the sleazy exploits of a hunky, closeted married man who cruises seedy bookstores and sex dens. He begins an affair with a dangerous teenager, unaware of the disastrous effects it will have on his life. In the Dark, Softly, directed by Joe Rubin, is a love story (of sorts), chronicling a young man's obsession with a local serial killer. And in the final film, In Deep, the police are trying to catch a murderer who preys on lonely men and then offs them with his extraordinarily large appendage. Maybe this killer is more than he seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, homoerotic
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Craze (1974)
Plot Summary:
Jack Palance stars as a demented art dealer & antique-shop owner who performs nightly rituals in honor of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up human sacrifice. His methods are fairly creative, ranging from impalement, slashing and burning, to scaring people to death with an ooga-booga fright mask. But it's all about to blow up in his face.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, cult film
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Massacre (1989)
Plot Summary:
A prostitute is brutally killed by the road side by a maniancal killer. Nearby a horror film is being produced but the director is worried that the script is too passé for a modern audience and so he plans to include a séance scene - he hires a real medium to carry out a ceremony with the cast and crew to help inspire the script but she is attacked by an evil spirit. Meanwhile members of the cast are being picked off one by one and police detective Walter is desperate to stop his girlfriend, the lead actress Jennifer, becoming the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher
Similar in 88%
The Sandman (1995)
Plot Summary:
The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a bestseller about a psychopathic killer after he was himself in prison for 8 years for manslaughter. As an entry for the show Ina plans to use a current series of brutal murders among prostitutes. When Ina meets Kupfer, she is despised and fascinated at the same time. Soon she's convinced that Kupfer not only writes about murders, but commits them himself. She smells a smash hit and prepares to prove him guilty on the show.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Body to Body (2003)
Plot Summary:
Laura Bartelli is a stripper in a French bar. She retires after a moody landscape architect named Marco Tisserand asks her to abandon her life and share his. However, after her red Volkswagen runs off the road en route to the rendezvous, she ends up scarred and comatose in a hospital. Marco stays at her bedside.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: bleak
Similar in 79%
Don't Go (2018)
Plot Summary:
Devastated by his daughter's death in a terrible accident, Ben becomes convinced that he can bring her back through a recurring dream. But is it just a dream? Or is Ben losing his mind?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Hard Drive (1994)
Plot Summary:
Film from James Merendino.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, erotic
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The Baby Doll Murders (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles cop tracks a serial killer who leaves a broken baby doll at the site of each grisly crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 76%
The Comeback (1978)
Plot Summary:
A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. The ghost of his murdered wife begins to haunt him, then the person who actually killed her shows up at the mansion.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, gothic horror, grindhouse, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, weird, cult film
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Intimate Nights (1998)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Kiss Me a Killer (1991)
Plot Summary:
An ex-convict (Robert Beltran) and his lover (Julie Carmen) plot to kill her husband (Guy Boyd), owner of a nightclub in east Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
Similar in 79%
Who Killed Buddy Blue? (1995)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Munro and Sanders are assigned to investigate the murder of an adult film star named Buddy Blue. The hunk was actually killed during the shooting of an orgy scene.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Graphic Desires (2022)
Plot Summary:
When reclusive Franklin cheats on his partner with a mysterious girl he meets on a dating app, it becomes the start of a deadly obsession.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
Queen of Carthage (2014)
Plot Summary:
An American Drifter discovers a New Zealand Singer and develops and obsession for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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A Deadly Affair (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mary (Austin Highsmith) and Charlie's (Alan Powell) marriage had become a little rocky, he forgot their anniversary whilst she almost slept with their friend Trevor (Luke Edwards) whose partner, Susan (Valerie Azlynn), is always working as she is a lawyer. But Mary is becoming suspicious of Charlie when he says he is working late on a property he is renovating and decides to show up there unannounced only to find him dead. With Charlie's sister, Crystal (Lorna Street Dopson), suspecting that Mary might have done it and with police investigating she turns to Susan for legal help.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Venus Flytrap (1987)
Plot Summary:
Three street punks--Turk, his girlfriend BB., and his sidekick Wimp--observe two young affluent kids, Ginger and Danny, shoplifting from a record store. On a lark, the street kids invite themselves along to a party at the home of the yuppies' friends, Rod and Arlene. There the party games turn from strip darts to Russian roulette.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, surprise ending
Similar in 84%
The Detective and Death (1994)
Plot Summary:
Death never gives back what it takes. Only sometimes change one life for other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain, Poland, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: detective
Similar in 87%
Crimen en familia (1985)
Plot Summary:
A wife and her kids plan the killing of the abusive husband and father. Based on a real crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Temptation (2023)
Plot Summary:
Inez is a young, aspiring journalist who dreams of love and a job at a prestigious publishing house. Once she gets to the paradise of her dreams, problems will start to multiply. What's more, two handsome men will appear at her side. Both mysterious and unpredictable.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Night Vision (2011)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing reality-TV producer (Spencer) unwittingly sleeps with a mysterious woman (Alison), who turns out to be his own stalker. Alison then kidnaps Spencer and holds him hostage while she humiliates and abuses him, recording every moment on camera for her own twisted reality-TV show.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
Similar in 81%
Streets of Death (1988)
Plot Summary:
Hookers are being killed all over the place, their bodies dumped in various parts of the city. Now, it's up to Officer Kelly Anderson with the help of Detective Grant Jordan to go undercover as a hooker to stop these horrific killings.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, fake documentary
Similar in 81%
Killing Obsession (1994)
Plot Summary:
Albert (John Savage) is a psychopath who, after brutally murdering a woman, becomes obsessed with her 11-year-old daughter Annie. Twenty-one years after being sent to prison for his crimes, Albert is freed over the strenuous objections of Dr. Sachs (John Saxon), the psychiatrist who has been overseeing Albert's case all these years. Sachs is convinced that Albert is still a very real threat to the community, and it turns out that he's right; desperate to find Annie, but not knowing what surname she uses today, Albert begins contacting every Annie he can find in the phone book, leaving a bloody trail of murdered women in his path when they turn out not to be the little girl he's looking for.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 78%
Blood Orange (2016)
Plot Summary:
The idyllic life of Bill, a retired aging rock star, and his young wife is rocked by a lover from her past, resulting in catastrophic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, cult film
Similar in 85%
Scorpio Nights 3 (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young couple's sex acts are witnessed by a young man through a hole. When the wife seduces him, they engage in an illicit affair. Chaos ensues when the husband learns about them.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Professional Affair (1995)
Plot Summary:
A drug lord hires a private investigator to track down the culprit who killed his henchman and took a briefcase full of money. One of the suspects is Heather Finch, a madam who seduces the detective and suggests that he swindles the drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir, independent film
Similar in 76%
The Kindred (2021)
Plot Summary:
After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher