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Plot Summary:
Pete & Jerry are cousins living in Sydney's Western Suburbs, where life consists of drinking, getting stoned, getting in fights and hanging out. But things change forever when Pete and Jerry both fall in love with the same girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, crying, independent film
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Little Fish (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, rough, serious, psychological, sincere, contemplative, crying, independent film
Similar in 86%
The Fury of a Patient Man (2016)
Plot Summary:
The tentative romance between a gentle Madrid labourer and a working single mother becomes a struggle for survival when the woman’s violent boyfriend returns from prison, in the gritty, suspenseful debut feature from Spanish actor Raúl Arévalo.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hispanic, neo western, perverse, twisted
Similar in 75%
Police (1985)
Plot Summary:
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eighties
Similar in 76%
The Blue Room (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room. They desire each other, want each other, and even bite each other. In the afterglow, they share a few sweet nothings. At least the man seemed to believe they were nothing. Now under investigation by the police and the courts, what is he accused of?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, sensual, hot
Similar in 80%
So Close to Paradise (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two young farm workers, who like millions of others, leave their village to seek their fortunes in the city. Each chose a vastly different path to make it and become embroiled in misunderstandings, gangster brawls and police raids.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
Similar in 90%
Frank & Lola (2016)
Plot Summary:
A psychosexual noir love story, set in Las Vegas and Paris, about love, obsession, sex, betrayal, revenge and, ultimately, the search for redemption.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, suspense, sexual, sensual, psychosexual thriller, sexy
Similar in 87%
Noise (2007)
Plot Summary:
The community reels after an incident on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the noises in his head while all around him deal with the after burn of the crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, suspense, contemplative, gloomy, crying, independent film
Similar in 82%
Emmett's Mark (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the Philadelphia police department, Emmett Young is a hotshot, a workaholic newly promoted to homicide. He learns he has a disease that will soon kill him painfully, so he hires a stranger to arrange his own death. With one eye on the calendar (he's allowed a few days' grace before his murder), he pursues a final case, the serial killing of young women. Emmett develops a profile of the assailant. Meanwhile, his fixer hires an ex-cop to kill Emmett, a lonely security guard whom the fixer taunts and belittles. In this limited time, can Emmett sort out what's important? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic, suspense, serious, erotic, romantic, detective
Similar in 84%
Mortal Passions (1989)
Plot Summary:
A scheming woman (Krista Errickson) seeks to kill her husband to collect the insurance money, and is willing to seduce anyone she can to do it - including her husband's brother.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychosexual thriller, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, tragic ending, sexy, eighties
Similar in 78%
Rush (1991)
Plot Summary:
Undercover cop Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines (Gregg Allman). While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, realistic, depressing, period piece, twisted, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense
Similar in 75%
The Nark (1982)
Plot Summary:
A Paris police detective (Richard Berry) plays rough with a prostitute (Nathalie Baye) and her pimp/lover (Philippe Léotard), whom he wants as an informant.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, anthology, detective, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, eighties
Similar in 76%
Revanche (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, psychological, art house, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, neo noir, suspense
Similar in 87%
Captives (1994)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit affair with him, with terrible consequences for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, erotic, tense, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film, tension, light, romantic
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The Poker Club (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four friends discover and accidentally kill a burglar -- who may not be alone -- in the kitchen during their weekly poker night.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Similar in 82%
Loft (2008)
Plot Summary:
Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, cynical, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, neo noir, detective, erotic, clever, slasher
Similar in 77%
Loft (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment. In this loft they meet their mistresses and conquests. Everything seems perfect, until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The group of friends begin to suspect each other and it soon becomes clear that they know far less about each other than they had initially thought. Dutch remake of the Flemish movie Loft (2008).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, neo noir, twist ending, dread, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
Similar in 82%
Forever Mine (1999)
Plot Summary:
A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, romantic, sexy, sex comedy, anamorphic, erotic
Similar in 89%
Locust (2014)
Plot Summary:
Story starts with a summer fling between a provincial guy and a big-city girl. The holiday is over, the beauty returns to the city and receives a marriage proposal from a rich admirer. The provincial boy comes back being unable to let her go. Things get messy when their passion oversteps all the limits. Soon contemporary Romeo and Juliet get confused about what is really important turning into consuming 'Locust': overwhelming love they have leads them to commit brutal murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, captivating, suspense, touching, surprise ending, neo noir, hot
Similar in 78%
Separate Lies (2005)
Plot Summary:
A cyclist is killed, swiped by a Range Rover in a village lane. James and Anne Manning become involved because the victim is the husband of their cleaner, Maggie. James, a solicitor in the city, soon comes to suspect William Bule, a millionaire playboy who has moved back to the village. William, pressed by James, confesses to the hit and run. But the confession is clouded by Anne's admission of her affair with William.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, emotional, psychological, realistic, clever, serious, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy, erotic
Similar in 86%
Attraction (2000)
Plot Summary:
A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, independent film, sexual, intense, serious, realistic, gloomy, erotic
Similar in 75%
Often (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ricky (Emraan Hashmi) is a leading fashion photographer, who carries his heart on his sleeve. He's an absolute womanizer. The film begins with Ricky getting a call from Sheena (Udita Goswami), who asks him to meet her in a gym. Once there, the two have a showdown since Ricky had used and dumped Sheena's friend Nisha (Tara Sharma). A heartbroken Nisha had even contemplated attempting suicide. Three years later, Ricky is about to hold an exhibition of his creations when a millionaire walks in and buys the entire lot even before the exhibition has begun. The millionaire, Rajveer aka Raj (Dino Morea), has a pre-condition: Ricky should make Raj's wife Sheena fall in love with him (Ricky). Ricky is perplexed, for he fails to understand why a husband would hire someone to have an affair with his wife. But Raj explains that he wants Sheena to divorce him and this would be possible only if she fell in love with another man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, suspense, sexual, surprise ending, detective
Similar in 87%
Panama (2015)
Plot Summary:
A thriller that depicts how digital communication, pornography and vanity obstruct true emotions and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, serious, suspenseful, erotic, art house
Similar in 90%
Inner Sanctum (1991)
Plot Summary:
A woman attempts suicide when she suspects her husband doesn't love her and is having an affair. Now she's wheelchair-bound, and her husband, who indeed doesn't love her and is having an affair, hires a private nurse to look after his wife. The nurse begins to suspect that she was hired because of unproven allegations that she murdered someone's wife in a similar situation, that the husband wants her to murder his wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, absurd, sexual, erotic, tension, realistic, sexy, serious, suspense
Similar in 79%
Revenge (1990)
Plot Summary:
Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he once flew to Alaska for a hunting trip. Arriving at the Mendez mansion in Mexico, he is immediately surprised by the beauty and youth of Mendez’s wife, Miryea.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, suspense, emotional, intense, serious, suspenseful, sad, cult classic, psychological
Similar in 76%
The Yards (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, neo noir, emotional, talky, intense, rough, realistic, atmospheric, psychological
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Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kenneth Bianchi, one of the two serial rapists and killers who terrorized the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s, is giving police station interviews to psychiatrist Samantha Stone, who has disquieting lifestyle issues of her own. It falls to her to delve into the details of the case to determine the veracity of Bianchi's claims of multiple personality disorder, but in so doing, she is forced to relive the horrific crimes, one of which occurs at her very doorstep.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, erotic, suspense, tense, serious, surprise ending
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Tequila Sunrise (1988)
Plot Summary:
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, serious, realistic, atmospheric, neo noir, cult classic, sexy, detective, noir
Similar in 84%
The Last Seduction (1994)
Plot Summary:
Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to Chicago, where she ensnares her next conquest, insurance man Mike Swale (Peter Berg). After getting a job at his insurance company, Bridget convinces Mike to run a scam -- but things take a deadly turn when she recruits him to help get rid of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, erotic, sexual, suspense, black comedy, tense, suspenseful, sensual, psychological
Similar in 78%
Derailed (2005)
Plot Summary:
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, surprise ending, serious, suspense, rough, twist ending, tense, neo noir, psychological, psychological thriller
Similar in 75%
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, realistic, disturbing, psychological, depressing, bleak, non-linear, emotional, serious