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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
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The Chimp (2001)
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The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in central Asia. His family is being torn apart by his dad's alcoholism, his emotions are being torn as he sees his friends pair off into couples, and his job working on the railtracks is uninspiring.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Kyrgyzstan, Japan
Duration: 98 min
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Teenagers (1983)
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A former athlete runs a camp dedicated to reforming juvenile criminals, a tough job with no quick payoffs.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
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Teenage Tramp (1973)
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Wayward and uninhibited young runaway Kim has fallen in with a bad crowd. Kim decides to flee said crowd and goes to the west coast to reunite herself with her uptight and neurotic estranged older sister Hilary so she can collect some of the inheritance left behind by their deceased parents. However, evil drug dealer Maury and his flock follow Kim to Hilary's house.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, independent film
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Brash Young Turks (2015)
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From award winning director Naeem Mahmood, comes Brash Young Turks, a bold debut feature telling a fast paced struggle of love, crime and power, against all odds.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
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Zig-Zag (1975)
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Marie and Pauline are two cabaret singers who dream of buying a cabin in the mountains. To achieve this, the two women become prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 89 min
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Fatal Mistake (1989)
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A drama about the youth of the late 1980s. The action takes place in Moscow. A young girl named Nadia, whom her own mother left in the hospital, has fun and quite innocently spends time with her friends. Before returning from a walk home is repainted in punk and brings his own kind of mother. The girl falls in love with a veteran of the Afghan war - a married man. She is called to look after his son, unsuccessfully trying to achieve reciprocity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 104 min
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To the Last Limit (1991)
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An ex-convict Viktor Dremov, who is also an ex-boxer, tries to mend his ways and start a new life but his former girlfriend is marrying another man (some old antiquarian), while local thugs rob him of his car and press him constantly trying to make him work for them. Being framed and hunted he should kill them all before he becomes a broken or a dead man.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
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Golfstrim (1969)
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Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min
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Count to 100 (2004)
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When we meet Thomas and his mother, Anne, for the first time, they are about to run away as so often before. Now, the escape brings Thomas and Anne to a cosy provincial town. They stop their car to fill up the tank and here Thomas meets Helene, who he instantly falls in love with. Thomas takes the initiative to rent rooms at the local junk dealer Lars. Thomas starts school in a new class, where he sits next to the guitar freak Jonas. In the beginning, Thomas and his mother try to keep to themselves, as they have all too often experienced having to say goodbye to new friends. But Thomas can't let go of Helene and his friend Jonas doesn't give up easily. When the schoolteacher arranges a concert, Jonas, Helene and Thomas form a band. Meanwhile, Lars falls in love with Anne, who also slowly begins to warm up to him. But the moment the future looks brightest, the past catches up with them and Thomas and Anne prepare to run away. But their stay in the little town has left its traces. The.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious
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The Executioner (1990)
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The journalist becomes a victim of rape. To take revenge on the rapists, she makes a deal with the criminals. But things are beginning to unfold unpredictably.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: road movie
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The Fight with the Panther (1975)
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Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
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My Name Is Harlequin (1988)
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The guy nicknamed harlequin and his company, which calls itself "wolves", live on a half-stop, near the city, where they often go "to rest" — in search of thrills. And it's not just bullies, at least they think so.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: retro, crying
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Marcowe migdaly (1990)
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Drama directed by Radoslaw Piwowarski.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
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O Capacete Dourado (2007)
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The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars.Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt.Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because of, that, they meet. What can they do? They can just ride, they can get away with it even if its all messed up. Love is to be lived.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 83 min
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Tit for Tat (1978)
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Professor Herceg struggling with difficulties, it is not easy to determine how students conveyed knowledge, and even harder to avoid the hatred of the disciples, and sympathy for the students. Arrival of television in school, a poll about the new school, students' imaginations and similar conditions will not relieve his problem.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min
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Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake (2005)
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14-year old Erik gets sent to live with his older brother, Henry, during the summer as his mother is dying in cancer. Henry starts dating Ewa, who is married to Berra. A few days after Ewa shows up battered and bruised from an altercation with Berra, he is found dead on a nearby parking lot.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, melancholic, teen
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Chicuarotes (2019)
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Cagalera and Moloteco are two teenagers from San Gregorio Atlapulco who are desperate to get out and move up and away from oppressive circumstances. When they hear of an opportunity to buy a spot in the electrician’s union, which could transform their lives, they quickly devolve into the criminal, adult underworld of Mexico City in a bid to buy their freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, hispanic, tragicomedy, crying
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The Girl with a Bracelet (2019)
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Lise (16 years old) is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is revealed in court, the truth becomes indistinguishable.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, social
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Boys (1977)
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This non-narrative film unveils three episodes in the psychosexual life of a neurotic man, beginning with a trip he took to the countryside over the holidays as a small boy, to visit a cousin. Later, he is shown as a high-school boy (Mads Ole Erhadsen). Finally, he is shown as a young man, busily engaged in the amorous pursuit of a trainee nurse.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: no music
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The Ciambra (2017)
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Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio sets out to prove to his brother that he is as good or better than him but, when things go wrong, a series of events will forever change the way he sees the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil, Germany, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: neorealism, psychological, tense, suspense, contemplative, sad, art house, crying
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Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998)
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A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: social, hispanic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bastardi 2 (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Mirush (2007)
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Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Oslo, but he is also in deep debt to the Albanian Mafia. Mirush starts to work in his father's restaurant without letting him know that he is his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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City of M (2000)
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After exhausting all legal channels in his search for a job, "M" struggles with the decision of whether or not to enter a life of crime by helping his friends deliver drugs to Miami.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak
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A Friend to Die For (1994)
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Angela Delvecchio, coming from a rather poor family, moves into the rich town Montevista. She admires Stacy, leader of the most prestigeous clique of her high school. Angela wants to be accepted and seeks Stacy's friendship. But when she defends outsider Monica against Stacy, she becomes Stacy's target herself. Mocked, she stabs Stacy with a kitchen's knife. The trial becomes a sensation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, teen, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, ridiculous
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Himizu (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two teenagers and a group of people made homeless by a tsunami try and make their way in a devastated Japan.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, stylized, controversial, manga, art house, existential, twisted, realistic
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Isy Way Out (2018)
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16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and the three boys rape the unconscious girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
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River's Edge (1986)
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A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions vary.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, independent film, dark, grim, creepy, cult classic, controversial, psychological, bleak, retro
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Mean Creek (2004)
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Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, intense, independent film, captivating, emotional, sad, tense
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Corniche Kennedy (2016)
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Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids of Marseille defy the laws of gravity. Marco, Mehdi, Franck, Mélissa, Hamza, Mamaa, Julie : girls and boys dive, take flight, take risks to experience life to the fullest. Suzanne devours them with her eyes from inside her chic villa. Their free bodies, their excess. She wants to be part of them. She will be part of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative