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Plot Summary:
An undercover cop lets his job get personal while on an underground assignment.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, exciting, rough, suspenseful, entertaining, serious, realistic, independent film, surprise ending
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Best tv shows and movies like The Proposal (2001):
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Tortured (2007)
Plot Summary:
A mobster orders an undercover FBI agent to torture an accountant.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, twist ending, hood
Similar in 84%
Chameleon (1995)
Plot Summary:
An undercover agent (Anthony LaPaglia) uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Similar in 88%
Moonshine Highway (1996)
Plot Summary:
The plans of a moonshine runner trying to make a better life by becoming a stock car racer go awry when the local sheriff is determined to kill the driver over an affair with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
El Cortez (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to avoid the cops, a wrathful drug dealer, and a sultry femme fatale.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, neo noir, independent film
Similar in 83%
Jill Rips (2000)
Plot Summary:
A tough guy goes undercover on a personal mission of vengeance into the hardcore world of S&M, to find out who's responsible for the death of his brother.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, slasher, stylized
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Similar in 85%
Face of Terror (2004)
Plot Summary:
A police officer searching for his missing sister in Spain uncovers a terrorist cell.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
Similar in 79%
Moscow Chill (2007)
Plot Summary:
A loner American computer hacker is brought to Russia to commit bank fraud, only to find a family and love in the incomprehensible, violent, and chaotic Moscow underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Similar in 85%
Breach of Trust (1995)
Plot Summary:
For opposite reasons, an undercover federal agent and a small time hood join forces to take on a union of drug lords and dirty cops.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective
Similar in 80%
Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the agents are executed. However, Kate is only wounded, and her boyfriend Nick believes there is a traitor in the agency and takes her to his ranch to protect her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo western
Similar in 84%
Cop on a Mission (2001)
Plot Summary:
Mike, a cop who is becoming increasingly frustrated with his tiresome job with little benefits, whilst the criminals live a life of luxury. He is offered a undercover job to infiltrate a Triad gang led by Boss Tin. Mike slowly becomes engrossed in this world and in Tin's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama
Similar in 87%
Vice (2008)
Plot Summary:
Michael Madsen stars as Max Walker, a down-and-out cop who becomes the target of a bloodthirsty drug cartel after he leads a narcotics bust to intercept a large shipment of heroin. When someone starts picking off his team members -- and the drugs seized in the raid suddenly disappear -- Walker pairs up with one of his detectives (Daryl Hannah) to uncover a conspiracy that may go straight up the chain of command.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 83%
Beyond the City Limits (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three women outsmart unsavory men who try to cheat them out of their take in an almost-botched casino heist.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film
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L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001)
Plot Summary:
LA's finest have crossed the line between Cop and Criminal.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Crime, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, fast
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Similar in 81%
American Yakuza (1993)
Plot Summary:
When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitaire, he is hired to operate forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia leaded by Dino Campanela and Nick rescues and saves the life of Shuji Sawamoto, who is the representative of Yakuza interests in America. Shuji hires Nick to work for Yakuza and becomes his godfather in the family after his oath to join Yakuza. However, Nick is a lonely FBI undercover agent assigned to penetrate in the criminal organization. When the FBI discovers that Campanela is organizing a massive attack to destroy the Yakuza, Nick's boss Littman calls off the operation to leave the dirty work to the Italian Mafia. But the connection of Nick with Shuji and his goddaughter Yuko forces him to help his Japanese family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical
Similar in 82%
Streets of Blood (2009)
Plot Summary:
A police officer's partner has died during Hurricane Katrina, but he later discovers that his partner may have been murdered. An investigation follows, taking the officer and his new partner into the depths of the criminal underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, hood, crime drama, exciting, suspenseful, neo noir
Similar in 81%
In the Shadows (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach him to do stunts. While waiting for the word to kill this mentor, Eric discovers the joy of stunt work and of being part of a family. Meanwhile, several people are looking for the dead man's briefcase of money and a cloth bag of illegal drugs that he stole from an undercover FBI agent now desperate to get the borrowed drugs back to the bureau. The stunt coordinator says that 'we dance in the shadows of death.' Can Eric step out into the sun?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 89%
Federal Protection (2002)
Plot Summary:
"Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify against the mobsters and his life is suddenly worthless - unless he submits to going into federal protection. The FBI gives him a new name - Howard Akers - and relocates him to a sleepy middle-class suburb in Little Rock, AR. Howard catches the attention of his lovely neighbor, Leigh, a bored fund-raiser for a non-profit zoo whose husband, Dennis, is having an affair - and she knows it, but she doesn't know it's with her hot-blooded sister, Bootsie. Leigh becomes friends with the enigmatic Howard, but Dennis and Bootsie see an opportunity to earn the million-dollar bounty the mob has put on his head by turning him in to the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, touching, exciting
Similar in 80%
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 87%
Impulse (1990)
Plot Summary:
Impulse is a 1990 thriller film about a female police officer who works undercover as a prostitute on the streets of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 90%
Sunset Heat (1992)
Plot Summary:
A former drug-dealer photojournalist (Michael Paré) returns to Los Angeles and helps friends terrorized by his ex-partner (Dennis Hopper).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, neo noir, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Double Bang (2001)
Plot Summary:
An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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In Too Deep (1999)
Plot Summary:
A fearless cop is taking on a ruthless crimelord. He knew the risks. He just didn't know how far he would have to go.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: hood, entertaining, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, crime drama, serious, realistic
Similar in 75%
Out of Season (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Critical Assembly (2002)
Plot Summary:
Critical Assembly is based on two college students (Katherine Heigl and Kerr Smith) who build a nuclear device, which is stolen by a fellow student. When it ends up in the hands of a terrorist, they work with an FBI agent (Beach) in a race against time.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Similar in 82%
Live Wire (1992)
Plot Summary:
Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, rough, fast
Similar in 88%
Night Eyes (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Beverly Hills home-security guard is seduced by a rock star's wife he monitors by video.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, independent film, sexual, erotic, hot
Similar in 75%
Playing God (1997)
Plot Summary:
Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with Raymond Blossom, an infamous counterfeiter. Employed as a "gun-shot doctor" when Raymond's associates cannot risk visiting a hospital, Eugene is lured deep into the criminal world and becomes entangled with his boss's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, erotic, neo noir, scary
Similar in 79%
Rapid Fire (1992)
Plot Summary:
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, suspense, crime drama, rough, realistic, fast
Similar in 89%
Snitch'd (2003)
Plot Summary:
When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but nobody is talking. And as McClure continues to dig for answers, it becomes clear that the two gangs are fighting for territory - and nobody is getting in their way.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, bleak
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Beyond the Law (1993)
Plot Summary:
Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang's leader, he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far 'beyond the law' will Saxon go?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, neo noir, retro, road movie, detective, bleak