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Plot Summary:
A mysterious female spy is recruited to infiltrate the Japanese underworld and gather evidence for a clandestine secretive branch of the Tokyo Police Department.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, erotic
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Zero Woman: Dangerous Game (1998)
Plot Summary:
In this installment of the Zero Woman series, Rei, the number-one assassin of the Tokyo Police Department's secret Zero Division, has been assigned to take out a notorious gangster responsible for dozens of murders. At the same time, she must protect the gangster's mistress from the hitmen who want to keep her from telling the police what she knows. At first, both women are upset about the arrangement, but they eventually come to appreciate each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Zero Woman (1995)
Plot Summary:
A gang of young thieves try to rob a mob boss, but their heist is interrupted by an officer of the Tokyo Police Department's elite Zero Division. They get away with the loot, but the officer, a beautiful, more-than-slightly psychotic young woman who also happens to be an excellent shot, is tracking them down. To bring the case to a successful conclusion, she must deal with rival crime gangs, small- time crooks, and the wavering loyalties of her own partner.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: manga, crime drama
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Zero Woman: Final Mission (1995)
Plot Summary:
A famous businessman's links with organized crime are looked into by the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police, with the investigation being headed by a highly trained, extremely violent and very beautiful female officer. When not having shoot-outs with the crime syndicate thugs trying to kill her, she spends most of her time in her apartment, wearing lingerie and taking showers. A sub-plot involves the businessman's S&M-obsessed daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: crime drama, weird
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Zero Woman: The Accused (1997)
Plot Summary:
Rei, the deadly but reluctant assassin for the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police Department, befriends a young man after she sees him cruising a gay bar looking for johns. After he gets beaten up by a group of street thugs, she takes him in to live with her. When a series of vicious murders takes place, she begins to suspect that the killer may actually be her friend taking revenge on everyone who has abused him. Will she uphold her duty to the police, or protect her only friend?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Double Life (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by lectures about French writer Sophie Calle and begins to follow her neighbor Ishizaka. Tama soon discovers that her neighbor Ishizaka is having an affair. She becomes excited about discovering his secret. Her relationship with her boyfriend Takuya and her professor Shinohara changes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Abe Sada: The Last Seven Days (2011)
Plot Summary:
In May 1936, the “Abe specific incident.” shook the entire country of Japan. It is said that Abe had a live-in maid (Yuma Asami), the owner of the restaurant’s employer Ishida (Nobuyuki Matsuda) was killed, that the cut is more localized. With respect to neither confirm nor deny the crime, frustrated by the testimony of the specific criminal Urakawa Abe (Shun Sugata). And the relentless questioning of Urakawa, we are told the circumstances leading to death and cut from the bodies of penis. Result of fierce passion between men and women debauched erratic, and saw two people … and the constant questioning after the incident, and the constant “last seven days” to depict that Katsuaki the in the here and now Abe no specific story that you have to watch it!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Twitch: You Are My Toy (2004)
Plot Summary:
Minori is a head-strong photographer who is romantically involved with Kushida, her editor. On a photography assignment she gets into an argument with her subject, Ageha, a female erotic manga artist who, like Minori, is 30 and single. Shin'ichi, the journalist on the assignment, receives most of the blame for the failure of the project. Minori sleeps with Shin'ichi, then discovers that her own position is not as secure as she thought, when she suspects that Kushida is also involved with Ageha. The series of events causes Minori to reconsider her own lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexploitation film
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Sinful Desires (2001)
Plot Summary:
Radio host Gia (Jacy Andrews) rules the Los Angeles airwaves with her disarming tales of sex, lust and intrigue. But when one caller seems to know a few too many details of Gia's titillating past, the sexy DJ is soon plunged into a world of blackmail and danger. While the police struggle to make sense of the befuddling case, Gia must fight to keep her sordid past silent as the threat mounts in this erotic thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexploitation film
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Stolen Kisses (2001)
Plot Summary:
Apparently a normal couple, Karen and Max are in fact agents for opposite sides of the "cold" war who have been assigned to marry each other and feed/steal intelligence. When they are both ordered to execute the other they realize that they have fallen in love.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexploitation film
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Lustful Illusions (2011)
Plot Summary:
Unfulfilled housewife Allison (Darian Caine) secretly yearns for adventure. When a mysterious antique movie camera appears in her living room, it heralds the beginning of a sexual odyssey beyond her wildest dreams - a series of passionate and insatiable encounters - between Allison, her friends and colleagues, and a dangerously seductive woman from the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Drama
Country:
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, disturbing, independent film, sexploitation film
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Code Name: Emperor (2022)
Plot Summary:
Juan, a secret service agent, approaches Wendy, a young Filipina who works as a maid for a suspicious couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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In From the Cold (2022)
Plot Summary:
Exposed as an ex-Russian spy, an American single mom must juggle family life and unique shape-shifting skills in a battle against an insidious enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending
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Tentacle 8 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious computer virus wipes out highly classified personnel files at the NSA, prompting a top secret investigation. RAYMOND BERRY, an NSA operative is thrown into a detention center, where he is suspected of crimes against the United States. He fights to stay alive, hoping to reunite with TABITHA, a CIA agent he has recently fallen in love with. Ray discovers that Tabitha is not who she says she is, complicating his plans to escape his former life and start over in anonymity.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Hyouka: Forbidden Secrets (2017)
Plot Summary:
Energy-conservative high school student Houtarou Oreki ends up with more than he bargained for when he signs up for the Classics Club at his sister's behest—especially when he realizes how deep-rooted the club's history really is. Begrudgingly, Oreki is dragged into an investigation concerning the 45-year-old mystery that surrounds the club room. Accompanied by his fellow club members, the knowledgeable Satoshi Fukube, the stern but benign Mayaka Ibara, and the ever-curious Eru Chitanda, Oreki must combat deadlines and lack of information with resourcefulness and hidden talent, in order to not only find the truth buried beneath the dust of works created years before them, but of other small side cases as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, anime
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Seventh Code (2013)
Plot Summary:
Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country. She tries to follow him, but she is attacked by thugs and dumped on the outskirts of town.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller, surprise ending
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The Enemy Within (2019)
Plot Summary:
Erica Shepherd is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton enlists Shepherd to help track down a fiercely dangerous and elusive criminal she knows all too well. While Shepherd and Keaton have different motivations for bringing the enemy to justice, they both know that to catch a spy… they must think like one.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, disturbing, suspense, captivating, detective, action adventure, suspenseful
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Seiai scandal: Kokeshi to hanayome (2016)
Plot Summary:
Homma, a shy and hard-working car mechanic, said goodbye to Mao (Maya Sawamura), a delivery health girl who has forgiven her heart for three years. This is because he started dating with an office lady named Yurie (Meguri) who he met at a matchmaking party and got engaged. Mao was a little jealous when he realized that he secretly loved Honma, but wished for the relationship between adults and the happiness of Honma. On the way home one day, Homma found a dirty kokeshi doll, cleaned it with a handkerchief moistened with water, and placed it on the flowerbed. That night, a strange young woman (Yui Kawagoe) visited the room. She forcibly went up to the room and said that she was a kokeshi doll.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, disturbing
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New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave (2007)
Plot Summary:
A secretary is introduced to the world of BDSM by her boss. She becomes his personal slave as they take a walk on the wild side of experimentations. This film is based on main actress Rinako Hirasawa’s personal experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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XX: Beautiful Prey (1996)
Plot Summary:
This Japanese thriller finds a beautiful policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investigation has led her to a seductive sadist and his equally appealing masochist victim. Falling prey to her suspects' powerful allure, she struggles to extricate herself from an increasingly torrid affair to solve the mystery she set out to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Pink and Gray (2015)
Plot Summary:
Popular actor Rengo Shiraki dies suddenly. Due to his sudden death, unpopular actor Daiki Kawata attracts the spotlight due to his close friendship with Rengo. Did Rengo Shiraki commit suicide or was he murdered?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Naked Sins (2006)
Plot Summary:
Cole and Erica run an upscale escort service which sets their clients up on anonymous and impromptu "dates" at hotels. They discover one of their female clients murdered, and that the man who signed up for their service on the same day happens to be her husband. They set out to untangle these mysterious circumstances before the cops follow the leads back to them, while also dealing with various romantic relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, suspense, captivating, disturbing, sexploitation film
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Reminiscence (2017)
Plot Summary:
Three childhood friends reunite over a murder case.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Legacy (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past. Based on Alan Judd's 2001 novel Legacy, the second in the Thoroughgood series after 1981's A Breed Of Heroes (adapted by the BBC in 1994). As the three day week, petrol rationing and industrial strife plunge Britain into a state of emergency, MI6 trainee spy Charles Thoroughgood is asked to reconnect with an old university friend, Russian diplomat Viktor Koslov, with a view to 'turning' him. Viktor has his own agenda, though, and reveals a shocking truth about Charles's own family that threatens to derail him, both personally and professionally. He is catapulted into a dangerous personal odyssey to uncover the truth but finds himself drawn into a lethal KGB plot to mount an attack within the UK. His life is further complicated by a relationship with the wife of another agent, which forces him to realise that betrayal can take many forms.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful
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Prophecy (2015)
Plot Summary:
The cyber crime investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department finds a video on website "YOURTUBE." In the video, a man covered by a newspaper, warns that a fire will be set at a food processing company. More crime notices are soon found involving violent crimes. Geitsu is the main guy behind the group "Shinbunshi," which has posted the videos. He used to work as a temporary employee at an IT company, but was unfairly dismissed. He then begins doing manual labor work and meets the other members of "Shinbushi.".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
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Chiwawa (2019)
Plot Summary:
Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her background or even her real name.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Dawn of the Felines (2017)
Plot Summary:
A glimpse into the lives of three prostitutes in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo and the clients who solicit them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011)
Plot Summary:
3 years after the ultimate life-or-death game with Teiai Group, Kaiji was entrapped by Teiai and again back in the underground, forced to do hard labour. One day, Kaiji wins a bet to get out of the underground with 1 million yen, and promises the other workers that he will save them. But to do so, he only has 14 days and needs 200 million yen! Kaiji meets his former rival Tonegawa and learns that there is a chance to turn the tables in the game. It was a monster casino machine that will make 1 billion yen if you win.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Operative (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Israel, Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, suspense, powerful
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Despite the Falling Snow (2016)
Plot Summary:
In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician – and falls in love with him. Moscow, 1959: Katya (Rebecca Ferguson, Mission Impossible- Rogue Nation, The Girl on the Train, The White Queen), is young, beautiful – and a spy for the Americans. When she and Mischa (Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Emerald City), begin spying on Alexander ( Sam Reid, Anonymous), an idealistic Communist politician, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with him. Her choice between love and duty leads to a nail-biting conclusion that Alexander (Charles Dance, The Imitation Game) can only unravel decades later in 1990s New York. His journey back to the snowbound streets of Moscow uncovers a love triangle and betrayals from those he trusted most.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, emotional
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Last of the Wolves (2021)
Plot Summary:
After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one evil person who gets released from prison, the situation drastically changes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing