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Plot Summary:
It's a quiet little town where nothing happens - until the day the bank is hit for half a million dollars of Indian casino money by a thief wearing a clowns mask.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, realistic, stylized, action packed, neo noir, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending
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Triplecross (1995)
Plot Summary:
T.C. Cooper is sprung from prison by Oscar Pierce, an F.B.I. agent, and given a task: take down master thief Jimmy Ray Danker. He accepts, but neither man expected the plan's single complication: Julia Summers, Jimmy Ray's lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
Hard Cash (2002)
Plot Summary:
Released from prison, an infamous thief and his new crew pull of a brilliant robbery but then become embroiled with a corrupt FBI agent when they discover the money is marked.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, action packed, independent film, fast
Similar in 77%
The Hard Truth (1994)
Plot Summary:
A suspended cop and his girlfriend blackmail an electronics expert into helping them break into the safe of the girlfriend's boss, a corrupt city councilman who's on the local mob's payroll.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film, neo noir, detective
Similar in 88%
Money Crush (1996)
Plot Summary:
Flush with $3 million in counterfeit bills, a pair of small-time criminals hope to make the big time by trading it in for a cool million in authentic cash. However, when the trade goes awry, three men end up murdered- one a cop with a vengeful sister--and the hapless buddies find themselves caught between the police and mob hit men after the money.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
Similar in 83%
I Witness (2003)
Plot Summary:
After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, serious, detective, hispanic
Similar in 77%
How to Rob a Bank (2007)
Plot Summary:
Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, fast, surprise ending, dark comedy
Similar in 88%
Tuesday (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four career criminals, two glamorous bank workers and one over-the-hill has-been all happen to be planning a robbery on a London bank on the same day, by sheer coincidence. The two investigating detectives must try and deduce how these seemingly unrelated people came to be in the area and which were responsible for the lifting a priceless emerald.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: semi serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear, fast, detective
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Guns, Girls and Gambling (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a chase for a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, exciting, witty, semi serious, action comedy, independent film, freeze frame, neo western, surprise ending
Similar in 81%
Shadows in an Empty Room (1976)
Plot Summary:
An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that not everything is what he thought it was.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, slasher, grindhouse, poliziottesco, neo noir, psychotronic
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Rapid Fire (2006)
Plot Summary:
A desperate band of Militia men attempts a daylight bank robbery in the sleepy semi-rural City of Norco, California, and leads the local Police on the longest, most violent running gun battle in Law Enforcement history. Based on the true events.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, independent film
Similar in 77%
Cold Steel (1987)
Plot Summary:
Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, fast
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A Murder of Crows (1998)
Plot Summary:
After a lawyer gets disbared, he goes off to write a book about his experience. He meets a man who lets him read his manuscript. The man dies and the lawyer passes the book off as his. Just when the book becomes a big success. He gets arrested for the true life murders of the five lawyers in his book. He then finds himself, trying to prove that he is innocent of the murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, twisted, stylized, independent film
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Sacrifice (2000)
Plot Summary:
A convicted bank robber breaks free as he is being transported to prison after learning that his daughter has been killed by a serial killer. Determined to find her killer, he joins with a female cop who is working the case. He quickly discovers that his daughter had recently had an abortion, an action common to all of the murdered women. Meanwhile the FBI agent that he escaped from is hot on his trail.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, surprise ending
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In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders (1988)
Plot Summary:
It is 1985, and a small, tranquil Florida town is being rocked by a wave of vicious serial murders and bank robberies. Particularly sickening to the authorities is the gratuitous use of violence by two “Rambo” like killers who dress themselves in military garb. Based on actual events taken from FBI files, the movie depicts the Bureau’s efforts to track down these renegades.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Lookout (2012)
Plot Summary:
A major police operation to take down a notorious gang of bank robbers goes horribly wrong when a rooftop sniper opens fire, killing several police officers and causing an explosive distraction in which the robbers make their getaway. Commissioner Mattei launches a large-scale manhunt for the sniper and his team, and is thrown into the seedy Parisian underworld of criminals and fallen souls.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, perverse, powerful, twisted, realistic, detective
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Swindle (2002)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, semi serious, independent film
Similar in 88%
Steal (2002)
Plot Summary:
An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a series of five bank heists, each time using a different extreme sport to make the getaway. Following an unexpected windfall on only their second job, the gang nets $20 million in untraceable bonds. Having scored enough money to retire on, Slim and his crew decide to call the robbery game quits. But both the mob and the police have other plans in mind for Slim: they want him to keep working, for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, exciting, fast, independent film
Similar in 87%
Ready 2 Die (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, crime drama, independent film
Similar in 76%
Backflash (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, realistic
Similar in 86%
Soundless (2004)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, stylized
Similar in 81%
Top of the World (1997)
Plot Summary:
In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged diversion, and the two of them become suspects. Over the course of the evening and next morning, the two attempt to escape to surrounded casino, and to prove their innocence, as well as to save their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, fast
Similar in 88%
Made Men (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman are on the run from gangsters whom he has stolen $12.5 million. When the gangsters show up, he takes them supposedly to where the money is hidden but instead leads them into a trap at a backwoods crystal-meth factory. The gangsters and the drug dealers start a shoot-out for unknown reasons and both go gunning for Belushi. Meanwhile an unscrupulous cop is secretly having an affair with the girl friend and planning to make off with the money.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, cult film
Similar in 84%
Living & Dying (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. As the police surround the building and the killers begin methodically executing the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic
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Black Moon Rising (1986)
Plot Summary:
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, retro, harsh, atmospheric, independent film, realistic
Similar in 90%
High Voltage (1998)
Plot Summary:
After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, independent film
Similar in 88%
Betrayal (2003)
Plot Summary:
When one of her hits goes wrong, a professional assassin ends up with a suitcase full of a million dollars belonging to a mob boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, spoof, parody
Similar in 80%
Murphy's Law (1986)
Plot Summary:
A tough police detective escapes from custody handcuffed to a foul-mouthed car thief after being framed for the murder of his ex-wife. He must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tricky, suspenseful, detective, rough, grindhouse, enigmatic, cult classic, action adventure, independent film
Similar in 78%
Striking Distance (1993)
Plot Summary:
Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted to water-way duty Tom, along with new partner Jo Christman, navigate the three rivers looking for clues and discovering bodies. This time the victims are women Tom knows, he must find the killer to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, suspense, intense, detective, realistic, serious, disturbing, psychological, action thriller
Similar in 81%
Montana (1998)
Plot Summary:
A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow the Boss and this routine task gets very complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, independent film
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The Watcher (2000)
Plot Summary:
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Vietnam
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher, serious, realistic, neo noir, independent film