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Plot Summary:
Childhood friends Victor and Narding built their friendship in the street. At a very young age, they were partners performing dangerous activities. However, Narding heeds his foster parents’ request for him to enter the seminary to become a priest. Victor is left alone without any parental support. Later on, he grows up to be a criminal. His wayward ways eventually got him imprisoned. Meanwhile, Narding became a good priest. He visits his old friend Victor in the prison and supported him until he finished his term. Narding accompanies Victor to their hometown where Narding works as a parish priest. Albeit their friendship has rekindled, Victor and Narding argue because of their different ways of raising homeless kids. Victor trains them the rough and dangerous ways, while Narding wants them to settle everything in a peaceful manner.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Let Sleeping Cops Lie (1988)
Plot Summary:
This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their misdeeds. Police inspector Grindel (Delon) understands the feelings which motivate these deeds, but does not approve. However, he is not highly motivated to put an end to the group's activities until it begins to appear that they are now attacking fellow cops for reasons which are unclear.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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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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The Fence (1994)
Plot Summary:
Having served 12 years in prison for assaulting a corrections officer, Terry Griff is let out of prison early and embarks on a downward spiral.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, semi autobiographical, independent film
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Turbulence (2006)
Plot Summary:
A series of murders takes place in the Metropolis in a span of three weeks, the latest of which happens on the night Junior, a taxi driver, makes love to a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Batas Ng Lansangan (2002)
Plot Summary:
Army Major RUBEN MEDRANO was once a part of an elite anti-kidnapping task force. An unfortunate incident during an operation got him suspended and sent back to Manila. There he tries to renew ties with his daughter MARISSA who has been living with his dead wives sister MARIEL. Marissa refuses to recognize her father because of all his shortcomings in the past. Nevertheless, Ruben decides to remain in the area. He soon discovers the presence of drug pushers and decides to do something about them. The drug lord who controls these pushers hires a hit-man named CARLOS to hunt down Ruben for meddling in his affairs. Soon the small community turns into a war-zone a Ruben tries to defend himself and those close to him from the attacks of these gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Permanent (2014)
Plot Summary:
Six unrelated people must push through their past and the mob underworld to discover what has controlled each of them all these years. Sex, Drugs, Guns and God have created a series of events which will leave each of them changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Wala Ka Nang Puwang Sa Mundo (1997)
Plot Summary:
After many years of imprisonment, Miguel is finally freed. On the day of his liberation, Miguel promises himself a clean and honest life to win back the family he has lost during his incarceration. However, nobody wants to take in an ex-convict, his steadfast resolution finally breaks, and to find urgent money Miguel joins his former partner Roy in his latest venture. Miguel does not realize, however, that Roy's company actually involves a criminal activity which implicates Miguel in an abduction and ransom crime. Even worse, Roy's gang is competing against Castro's gang, so Miguel's life, and his family's, are put in constant danger. - Artemis-9.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Utol (1996)
Plot Summary:
A Filipino crime drama film directed by Toto Natividad.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Birador (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mike Santana is technically as person for he uses his position as a policeman to savagely murder people; he also manhandles his wife Gina. His partner in service is Frankie, a young loyal police who sticks with him through thick and thin. But in end he betrays him for good. Because of that he pours out all of his frustrations to his wife, and as he continues to be rude, his wife Gina finally leaves him for her family. His teenage gets gang-raped by men. As he gets to live all alone, with all the people blaming him for their shortcomings; he starts to realize his mistakes which will transform from being soulless to a sensible human being. He would also meet Michelle who teaches him not to regret the act of forgiveness. Suddenly, his crooked ways backfire on him when he gets accused of killing a pro-laborer advocate. As he tries to come clean and liquidate the real criminals, another threat would come to take his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Ameerin Aadhi Bhagavan (2013)
Plot Summary:
Aadhi, a smart and suave smuggler in Bangkok, falls in love with a waitress. However, he finds himself in trouble when she frames him for all the crimes committed by his look-alike, Bhagavan.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating
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No Way Out (1973)
Plot Summary:
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications--and many bloody shootouts-ensue.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, neo noir, noir, perverse
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)
Plot Summary:
Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, perverse, cult classic, psychotronic, cult film
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Night of the Juggler (1980)
Plot Summary:
An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, hood, grim, cult film
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Cop's Honour (1985)
Plot Summary:
Cop's Honor (Parole de Flic) is a 1985 French crime movie directed by José Pinheiro and starring Alain Delon as retired police officer Daniel Pratt. His teenager daughter was killed by a gang of mysterious hooded killers so Pratt began his own investigation to avenge the killers and their backroom leader.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Manila Kingpin (2011)
Plot Summary:
Mobster Asiong Salonga (ER Ejercito) rules the mean streets of Manila with an iron fist—until he is betrayed by a trusted friend. Manila Kingpin is based on the story of the notorious Tondo, Manila, gang leader Nicasio “Asiong” Salonga, whose true-to-life accounts had been portrayed in several movie versions since 1961 (starring Joseph Estrada). It is also the first Filipino major film produced in black-and-white in the 21st century as well as the returning action genre movie. Before the film was shown, Tikoy Aguiluz requested the producers, through his lawyers, that his directorial credits in the film and promotional tools be removed because the final version of the film can no longer be described as his after the producers made a reedit, re-shoot and music mixing without his involvement. He also demanded that he be allowed to make a director's cut of the film.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, tagalog, crying
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In My Own Hands (1996)
Plot Summary:
Joven dela Rosa is an NBI officer who investigates The Catleya Killer case perpetrated by a man who preys married women. The killer tortures his victim to death and disposes the body at the sidewalk during night time. However, as Joven gets busy solving the case, he gets to spend lesser time with his wife Camille, who met a handsome man named Gene Rivera. Camille finds Gene’s mysteriousness attractive. But behind Gene’s good looks is a man haunted by his past which keeps him from committing violence against women. How soon will Joven figure out that the man behind the heinous crimes has already penetrated to his household?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher
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On the Job (2013)
Plot Summary:
On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between two prison inmates who are contract killers, and the two agents of the law investigating the murders. As they get caught in a web of machination of corrupt government officials, their jobs lead them on a head-on collision against each other with their loved ones as collateral damage.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense, noir, neo noir, tagalog, unpredictable
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Dead Bang (1989)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside the violent world of hate groups and white supremacists, who are hatching a deadly plot to attack even more innocent people. Beck must also confront his own personal demons, including his growing problem with alcohol, if he wants to track down and stop the violent neo-Nazis before it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, detective, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, independent film, funny
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Violent Cop (1989)
Plot Summary:
Detective Azuma is a Dirty-Harry style rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, bloody, detective, bleak, crime drama, ironic, witty, controversial, hood, suspense thriller
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Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
Plot Summary:
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: epic, neo noir, hood, grim, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, poliziottesco
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Maria (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a former BlackRose cartel assassin deliberately betrays them by refusing to complete her mission, the cartel orders her execution. Unbeknownst to them, she fakes her own death and is able to create a new life of her own. When the cartel discovers she is alive, the hunter becomes the hunted as she fights to get revenge on those who took her new life away from her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, brutal, captivating
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The Stone Killer (1973)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: retro, detective, grindhouse, hood, neo noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Toro (2016)
Plot Summary:
Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). After Toro decides to leave Romano to get a life free of crime, his last sting fails, resulting one of his brothers dead and he sent to jail. Five years later, Romano realizes that López, Toro's older brother, is robbing him money from his tourism business and he orders to kidnap Diana, López's little daughter, until this one get back the money. Without options, López visits Toro, now a touristic driver with the third grade prison close to get the parole, who only wants to be free to marry his girlfriend Estrella. When Toro accepts to help López and both meet Romano looking for a solution, Toro ends attacking Romano's men and fleeing with Diana, trying to escape from Romano's revenge. But Romano starts a ruthless searching for they three, meanwhile Toro counts the hours to back the prison according to the third grade.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, hood, perverse, noir
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Judgment Night (1993)
Plot Summary:
While racing to a boxing match, Frank, Mike, John and Rey get more than they bargained for. A wrong turn lands them directly in the path of Fallon, a vicious, wise-cracking drug lord. After accidentally witnessing Fallon murder a disloyal henchman, the four become his unwilling prey in a savage game of cat & mouse as they are mercilessly stalked through the urban jungle in this taut suspense drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, harsh, intense, serious, rough, realistic, hood, twisted
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Truth (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young man named Satya comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do, the once-honest young man meets an underworld boss, Bhiku Mhatre in jail and joins his gang.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, dark, experimental, black comedy, suspense thriller, rough, clever, bleak, realistic
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Nowhere to Hide (1999)
Plot Summary:
Over the next 72 days, Detective Woo will push his skills to the limits and his team of cops to the edge as they conduct a manhunt for an elusive criminal. Woo takes the law into his own hands as the hunt becomes personal, and as his target may get away.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: stylized, neo noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, tense, noir
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Wall (1975)
Plot Summary:
Reflecting the tumultuous politics of the early ’70s in India, Deewar tells the story of a pair of impoverished brothers who, after their family is betrayed by the misplaced idealism of their father, struggle to survive on the streets of Mumbai. They head for a showdown when one becomes a policeman, and the other becomes a criminal.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: inspirational, serious, realistic, poliziottesco
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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Plot Summary:
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, cult classic, disturbing, stylized, intense, rough, serious
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The Crew (2015)
Plot Summary:
It’s bad men versus worse men as thieves face off against dealers in this super slick French heist thriller from the director of Chrysalis and The Assault.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, hood, perverse, powerful, crime thriller
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American Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
A neo-noir set in the New York City's corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York's mafia, Michael Rubino, fight for money, art, power and love.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame