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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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Strip Club Slayer (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a strip club goer is killed, the dancers hire a bouncer to protect themselves. As the sexual tension grows between one of the women and the bouncer, the mystery of the dangerous killer unravels.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, sensual
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A Crime (2006)
Plot Summary:
Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a culprit, so that Vincent can find revenge and leave the past behind. But there is no ideal culprit and no perfect crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological, serious, neo noir, realistic
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The Awakening (2019)
Plot Summary:
the story of two former drug addicts who come together in a story of self-improvement.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film, black cinema
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Fallacy (2013)
Plot Summary:
Lured by quick money, David a loving family man and aspiring star lawyer lives a dangerous double life. While under the assumption the end would always justify the means he gets mixed-up in a political intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, surprise ending
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Blackmail Boys (2010)
Plot Summary:
After moving to Chicago for art school, Sam begins turning tricks to help pay the bills. His longtime, long-distance boyfriend Aaron can't stand to be apart and finally joins him, determined to find enough work so that Sam can give up having sex for money. When the two decide to tie the knot and move to a state where they can marry, their financial worries intensify...until Aaron spies on Sam with a prominent client, and everything changes. This sweet and sexually explicit love story becomes an exhilarating extortion tale. contains graphic sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
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His Deadly Affair (2019)
Plot Summary:
Violinist Danielle Turner returns to her hometown for her final show of the tour. While home she sets out to repair her relationship with her sister, Heidi, but Danielle’s dream boyfriend, James the Conductor of the Orchestra, has a dangerous and obsessive wife, who is waiting to extract her vengeance on Danielle.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Everlasting (2016)
Plot Summary:
"Everlasting" is an award-winning thriller about a High School student who travels from Colorado to L.A. to find the truth behind the murder of his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, teen
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The Love Machine (2016)
Plot Summary:
Women seeking therapy from a relationship counselor are programmed, via the Love Machine, to brutally kill their mates when a hypnotic response triggers their homicidal rage.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, erotic, sexy
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The Wedding Murders (2016)
Plot Summary:
Serial Killer Henry Sparks fall in love with his childhood sweetheart Detective Prospect Jenkins who is after him.
IMDB Rating:
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Genere: Crime, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, captivating, disturbing, independent film, detective, gay cinema
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Passion's Obsession (2000)
Plot Summary:
Nicole, a female private detective, is hired by Angela Moore, a Hollywood talent agent, to locate a missing male model. The plot thickens when a ransom note is received by the police. Nicole uncovers the seamier side of Angela, the male model, and their friends, and finally discovers what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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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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Anegan (2015)
Plot Summary:
Madhumitha is convinced that she and her colleague Ashwin were lovers in their past lives and have been brought together by fate. Is there any truth to this or is she merely hallucinating?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Into the Deep (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows a woman desperate to escape her town, she meets a stranger who promises a romantic escape, but it results in deceit, mistrust, and violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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A Grain of Truth (2015)
Plot Summary:
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth….
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo noir
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Autopsy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Eric and Sarah are detectives who are investigating the murder of a professor which it seems like a gay hate crime. Married Eric becomes attracted to the pathologist, Emmanuel.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Over the Edge (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jason (Danny Bedford) is in a crisis. He won’t go to work and stays holed up in his flat. But when his TV breaks, he is forced to call co-worker Richard (Sean Hart) to fix it. All is normal, except when Jason mentions that a friend of his may be dead in his bed. Instead of hightailing it out of the potential murder scene, Richard (who has the hots for Jason) instead not only checks the body (yes, dead) but also proposes a homemade autopsy. And when the scalpel cuts the flesh, these two young men are now in it together. But it is not just one body, a serial killer is roaming London’s streets, but the bodies seem to all end up in Jason’s flat.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, queer cinema
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No Night Is Too Long (2002)
Plot Summary:
Young Tim Cornish's life has begun with great promise. Blessed with extraordinary good looks, Tim enjoyed much attention and cared little of broken hearts. At University he was a favored student in a prestigious creative writing course, but a chance meeting, a stolen kiss and a sudden flare of passion sets Tim on a journey of betrayal, heartbreak and murder. In a flashback, he tells his story of cruelty, love and a soul-destroying guilt that offers little chance for redemption.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, sexual, lgbt cinema, controversial, sexy, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Eun-ha (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eunha, who is a stateless person, is imprisoned for charged with murder. A warmhearted, coolheaded correctional officer goes through turbulent changes of his emotions after he meets the woman. The movie depicts the extraordinary love between the two in the limited space of a penitentiary facility.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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According to Mathew (2018)
Plot Summary:
A highly respected priest conspires with his mistress to poison both her husband and his own wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Death of a Vegas Showgirl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two talented dancers become swept up in a tumultuous association that spirals into compulsion.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Those Who Love, Hate (2017)
Plot Summary:
Enrique Hubermann, homeopathic physician, travels in flight from a love. By a joke of fate, in that distant place he meets the woman he wants to forget, a beautiful young woman like a demon who manipulates men and triggers dangerous passions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Lakeside Murder Case (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that she has killed his mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Attraction to Paris (2021)
Plot Summary:
A college girl, studying abroad in Europe, stumbles upon a murder in progress, orchestrated by a terror cell, putting her life in danger as the main witness.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Puerto Rico
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Goodbye, Butterfly (2021)
Plot Summary:
After his five-year-old daughter is murdered, a loving family man becomes convinced that the oddball down the street is guilty.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Stray Bullets (2016)
Plot Summary:
In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Mississippi Murder (2017)
Plot Summary:
An amazing murder mystery taking place in a setting that no one would expect the coast of Mississippi. A young woman tried to live a normal life despite a horrible upbringing. But she will learn her past will haunt her once more.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Gabriel's Rapture: Part Two (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the fifth installment of the Gabriel's Inferno series, Gabriel and Julia’s happiness is threatened by a conspiring student and academic politics. When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he succumb to Dante's fate? Or will he fight to keep Julia, his Beatrice, forever?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Girl Is in Trouble (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 985
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Louise and her Lover (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lesbian wanna-be model falls dangerously in love with an up and coming painter. The relationship goes too far too fast and the lines between art and sex get blurred.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, captivating, suspense, independent film
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She's Just a Shadow (2019)
Plot Summary:
A crime family becomes entangled in a vicious gang war while a serial killer cuts a swath through Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing