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Plot Summary:
Shot on location in Egypt, the story unfurls like an Italian Giallo as a group of people meet under strange circumstances, and one by one they are murdered. Gold is missing so you suspect a thief is trying to cover up his crime but that might be too obvious.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Adventure, Crime
Country: Italy, West Germany, Egypt
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: eurospy, cult film
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The Mad Executioners (1963)
Plot Summary:
A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a subplot about another murderer. Surprise ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Three Golden Serpents (1969)
Plot Summary:
Female American tourists are being kidnapped by a crime ring headed by a beautiful Asian woman. They're drugged and then sent to an island where they are kept as sex slaves to be used by wealthy tourists. Two agents are dispatched to rescue the women and put an end to this operation.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Thailand, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: hood, eurospy
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The One-Eyed Soldiers (1967)
Plot Summary:
Action - The body of Dr. Charles Berens, Chief of the United Nations Medical Relief Organization, is seen hurtling from the lofty parapet of an ancient church. He has chosen death rather than capitulate to his murderous pursuers. Police chief Colonel Ferrer (Andrew Faulds) arrives in time to hear the dying Berens last words: "July the 18th! The One Eyed Soldiers." - Dale Robertson, Luciana Paluzzi, Guy Deghy.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: UK, Italy, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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Crimes of Passion: King Lily of the Valley (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spring is in the air and Puck and Einar, as well as Christer Wijk are invited to a wedding in Skoga. The day before the wedding, the bride-to-be enters a flower-shop in order to inspect her bridal bouquet of lily of the valley, but suddenly vanishes without at trace. When she eventually turns up again, it is Christer who finds her. She lies dead outside her home with a bouquet of lily of the valley in her hand. Everybody close to the bride are suspects, not least her best friend, whom Christer has just begun flirting with. Everybody seems to have something to hide. Question is: are their secrets connected to the murder?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Hostages of Lust (1973)
Plot Summary:
A rich family find their holiday island home invaded by a pair of criminals who've just escaped from the local jail.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Adventure, Crime
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic
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CBI 5: The Brain (2022)
Plot Summary:
Series of bucket-killing murders happening in the city. Failure to resolve by police, a team of CBI Officers under CBI officer Sethurama Iyer take up the investigation to resolve the never experienced mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags:
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Innocent Bystanders (1972)
Plot Summary:
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: political thriller, eurospy
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Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang (1966)
Plot Summary:
Kirk Warren, a former spy, is to be executed because he tried to steal a million dollars. But he is saved by Colonel Smithson because Sir Wilcox has prepared a mission for him. Warren has to steal a secret formula in Switzerland and try to expose the real identity of Mr. X. Kirk leaves London and Alina, his girl, together with three clumsy friends to accomplish his not so secret mission. But Kirk's great love is always a million dollars and not a secret formula.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, eurospy, campy
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Inseln vor dem Wind (2012)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Adventure
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, feel good, suspense
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Murder in the Orient (1974)
Plot Summary:
American agent, with the help of a wise martial arts teacher, hunts down a pair of samurai swords that are worth millions of dollars.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Philippines
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Death Occurred Last Night (1970)
Plot Summary:
A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old, mentally retarded woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops race to find the killers before the grieving father does.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, poliziottesco
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The Revolt of the Seven (1964)
Plot Summary:
Peplum movie from 1964.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Crimes of Passion: Roses, Kisses and Death (2013)
Plot Summary:
The country estate of Rödbergshyttan is surrounded by heavily fragrant roses in every color. There lives the beautiful Gabriella, who Christer loves, and an invitation to their engagement party is the reason for Puck and Einar to travel there. But the rose-scented idyll soon turn into a stifling background when Puck finds Gabriella's grandfather poisoned in his bed. Little by little we learn that the relations between the people living at the estate is everything but uncomplicated, and that there is a sexual frustration behind every well polished marriage. The question is to what extent beautiful Gabriella is involved in the intrigues and how much of a coincidence it is that her grandfather is killed just when Christer is in the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, detective, period piece, exciting, contemplative
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Operation Atlantis (1965)
Plot Summary:
An American agent discovers that the Red Chinese have built a secret atomic city from which they will attempt to invade America.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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Mission Bloody Mary (1965)
Plot Summary:
Agent 077 - Mission Bloody Mary or Agente 077 missione Bloody Mary is a 1965 Italian action spy adventure film. The first of the Secret Agent 077 film series directed by Sergio Grieco.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Adventure
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spy comedy, eurospy
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The Corrupt Ones (1967)
Plot Summary:
Spy accidentally gets an ancient treasure. Several corrupt groups try to steal it from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, eurospy
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Operation White Shark (1966)
Plot Summary:
When "The Third Eye" - a criminal organization made up of the world's most vicious killers - kidnaps nuclear scientist Professor Von Kraft, his secret formula for a new atomic weapon that can destroy all human life falls into their evil hands. Making things a tad difficult, however, is that the weapon is located deep beneath the ocean. Nevertheless, the Third Eye plans on experimenting with the device in little more than a week. However, the Secret Service has other ideas and asks "Jerry," their super computer, to locate the best man to stop them: Mark Andrews (RODD DANA), a special forces secret agent who infiltrates the criminal gang under the cover of a robber who just happens to be an expert underwater diver! He also wastes no time romancing all manner of shapely women in the tightest clothes imaginable (when they're wearing more than a modestly placed bed sheet) especially JANINE REYNAUD, the bisexual leader of The Third Eye, who sports a wild wardrobe of very revealing outfits.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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License to Kill (1964)
Plot Summary:
Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying apparatus. An international crime gang is very interested in stealing this equipement to sell it to the higher bidder of lawless nations. Menaced, the scientist, who was friends with Nick Carter's father, calls Nick for help. At Nice airport, Nick Carter escapes death, but that night he is unable to stop Formenter's murder. He suspects Bruno, Formenter's adoptive son, and Tonio, the owner of a bar near Formentier's home. Bruno is actually after Formenter's heritage, and for that he tries to kill Catherine, Formentier's granddaughter. Therefore, Nick Carter finds himself against more than a gang, but he will uncover the plots, in time to break every gangster apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, eurospy
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Killer 77, Alive or Dead (1966)
Plot Summary:
Lester of the UK Secret Service follows a lead, from a rigged boxing match to Mr. King, a German scientist who is using his power and special knowledges to rebuild a Nazi regime and the world take-over.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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Special Mission Lady Chaplin (1966)
Plot Summary:
Lady Chaplin is a beautiful woman, she is a fashion stylist and she owns an atelier in Paris. Zoltan is a rich American specialized in submarine researches. Dick Malloy is an American secret agent. What have the three in common? Perhaps a sunk American atomic submarine with sixteen missiles still on board? And why every other scene one, two, ten or more men are trying to kill Malloy in every conceivable way?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, political thriller, spy comedy, eurospy
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That Man in Istanbul (1965)
Plot Summary:
An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret organization.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, eurospy
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Crimes of Passion: No More Murders (2013)
Plot Summary:
Puck and Einar decide to spend the last weeks of their vacation in Einar's idyllic childhood town Skoga. Pucks father Johannes Ekstedt, professor in Egyptology, has a household cat called Thotmes III that joins the couple. They get to borrow both Einar's sisters beautiful old wooden house as well as her highly competent housekeeper. But after the first night, the idyll crumbles. Einar finds a dead body on the lawn, a young man stabbed to death by a dagger. Christer Wijk enters the stage and with the help of Pucks observations the mystery approaches its tragic solution.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, detective, period piece
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Agent X-77 Orders to Kill (1966)
Plot Summary:
A government agent tries to prevent foreign spies from obtaining a scientist's formula for a solid-rocket-fuel.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Adventure
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (1974)
Plot Summary:
An adventure film about the search for a more than 200-year-old treasure on the ocean floor.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Kingdom of the Silver Lion (1965)
Plot Summary:
Kara Ben-Nemsi, friends and rescuers set out to free a young relative of the guardian of the treasure of the Chaldaeans (Christian sect), who is captured for that fabulous ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Adventure
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Gordon's War (1973)
Plot Summary:
A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriated, he gathers three of his ex-GI buddies and they lay out plans to fight the drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crime drama, grim, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black cinema
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One Man's Treasure (2009)
Plot Summary:
Elder Johnson (Darin Southam) is a hard working, by-the-book missionary who is near the end of his service but has yet to see any fruit from his labors. His companion, the laid-back elder Sarath (Charan Prabhakar), has had lots of baptisms, even though obedience isn't his strongest attribute. A chance discovery of an old journal leads the Elders (and the other missionaries in the area) on a treasure hunt. Relying on each others strengths, they strive to solve the clues, which lead them to an unexpected reward!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Ark of the Sun God (1984)
Plot Summary:
A safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to the god Gilgamesh but is now in the temple of a secret cult.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: Italy, Turkey, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, grindhouse
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Collectors (2020)
Plot Summary:
To acquire ancient artifacts for a private collector, a cunning grave robber and his band of ingenious thieves carry out a series of risky heists.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 973
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Treasure Island (1990)
Plot Summary:
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: dramatic, cult classic, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, scary, light, enigmatic, breathtaking