Best movies like Scene of the Crime: A Tooth for a Tooth
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Plot Summary:
A man who has just become unemployed kills his closest relatives before he judges himself. Commissioner Schimanski determined.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Loners (1972)
Plot Summary:
On his motorcycle Stein, a half-blood Indian, tries to stay out of the hands of the police, who are chasing him for accidentally killing a cop. Together with his friend Alan and a beautiful but desperate girl Stein will get involved in a robbery and more death. The police intensify the search, but the three won't give up that easily.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hollywood Man (1976)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood action film star Rafe Stoker has sunk $130,000 of his own money into his own production, but can't find legitimate financing to complete the film. His mob-connected investor demands an exorbitant amount of collateral and a guarantee that Rafe hand over a commercially acceptable film in 4 weeks, then hires a gang of psycho bikers to sabotage the picture to ensure he collects Stoker's collateral. As if a cranky local cop and bad weather didn't slow production enough, Crazy Harvey decides to take Rafe out of the picture after Rafe shows him up once too often.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Manhunter (1976)
Plot Summary:
Greek Spies are trying to give bad image about turkey, Metin a young police man who decides to go rogue and achieve justice after the murder of his partner and his family on the hands of Greek spices.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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A Man Called Magnum (1977)
Plot Summary:
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, perverse
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Mad Drivers (1978)
Plot Summary:
Spoiled rich boys get into drag-racing and end up in beeg trobbles.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Justice Is Blind (1981)
Plot Summary:
Chattaniki kallu levu is action thriller based movie in which, the story deals with siblings Vijay (Chiranjeevi) and Durga (Lakshmi) pursuing their sister’s and father’s murderers.Their father and sister are killed by 3 men, John (Hema Sundar), Javed (Kannada Prabhakar) and Janardan (Ceylon Manohar).Durga, now a police officer, wants the murderers to be punished legally. But, Vijay thinks that law and its loopholes can never track down those 3 murderers.So, he decides to track them down by himself and succeeds in killing two of them, John and Janardhan on each occasion.This frustrates his sister and interrupts her investigations. She has a doubt on vijay, but due to lack of evidence remains helpless. In the end, Durga, tring to nab Javed, is kidnapped by him, but Vijay saves her and kills Javed.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
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Season For Assassins (1975)
Plot Summary:
As a gang of youths terrorizes a city, the weary chief of police finds himself caught between the citizens who cry for blood and a catholic priest who believes the boys will respond to kindness.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Summertime Killer (1972)
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This multinational crime action film also boasts an international cast. During his childhood, a boy (Chris Mitchum) sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His last killing presents him with some challenges, as his victim is only wounded. He kidnaps the man's daughter (Claudine Auger) and goes to a hideout. In the meantime, an ex-cop (Karl Malden) has been tracking them down.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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The Courier (1988)
Plot Summary:
When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery, he does some digging only to discover that the messenger company is a front for a drug ring. A reformed drug user himself, he sets out to crack the lethal ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, poliziottesco
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Devlin (1992)
Plot Summary:
A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir
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Avenge Every Second (2007)
Plot Summary:
Einar and Davy find themselves in a frightening position, when they realize that their employer, Miami Crime boss Ricky want them dead. They both escape hoping nobody will find them. But in four years time a lot can happen!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Stunt Squad (1977)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with the murderous shenanigans of Valli’s protection racket, police chief Grifi assembles an ace team of stunt trained police officers to tackle the mob!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Lock 'n' Load (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam vet has nightmares about murder and zombies, and then discovers that he and other vets have been programmed to commit crimes and then kill themselves afterwards so they can't be traced. He investigates to try to find out who is responsible.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, splatter, independent film
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Convoy Busters (1978)
Plot Summary:
In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high government officials. When his methods leave an innocent bystander dead, the corrupt officials have an excuse to get Olmi transferred to a coastal town where the pace is slow and he has time for a romantic dalliance. Soon, Olmi discovers that fishing isn't the only local occupation, and out comes his gun and his ruthless tactics of investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Emergency Squad (1974)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless Interpol agent goes after the man who killed his wife in Stelvio Massi's crime thriller. A gutsy robber named Marseilles pulls off a tricky heist, but he's no match for agent Ravelli, a maverick who can't control his bloodlust. And this time, it's personal: Years earlier, the daring thief murdered the operative's wife in cold blood.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Author's Crime (1974)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy Countess is warned that if she gives a valuable painting away as first prize in a music competition, the only thing handed out will be death. In rapid succession, the painting is stolen, the Countess murdered, her niece kidnapped, and the police baffled as the killings continue.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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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 Sniper (1977)
Plot Summary:
Lucas is a widower who works as a clockmaker. He has a daughter who lives in a village in northern Spain. One day his daughter go to school as each morning and he opens his shop. Aafter, a neighbor comes running to tell him that his daughter just died as an unfortunate victim of a terrorist attack that has been perpetrated against the car of a minister on official visit. Shattered, Lucas thinks that this is due to serious political tension that is living that part of the country, making a terrible emotionally unbalanced resolution: life threatening to the Head of State.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971)
Plot Summary:
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: weird
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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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Goodbye (2019)
Plot Summary:
In Seville, Juan is starting to enjoy his weekends outside of prison when tragedy strikes: his little girl is killed in what looks like an accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: social, hood
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City Under Siege (1974)
Plot Summary:
A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Angels of the Street (1969)
Plot Summary:
Angels of the Street or The Angel of St. Pauli is a 1969 West German crime film directed by Jürgen Roland and starring Horst Frank, Herbert Fux and Werner Pochath. It is set in the St. Pauli red light district of the port of Hamburg.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, poliziottesco
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Avatharam (2014)
Plot Summary:
Madhavan Mahadevan, who comes into the city from a village to see off his sister-in-law and her daughter after the death of his elder brother, an upright Customs Officer (KB Ganesh Kumar). While running around to claim the insurance money, he comes to know that his brother was actually murdered by the underworld don Irumbanakkal John (Joy Mathew).
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags:
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Sunset Strip (1985)
Plot Summary:
The stage is set for a series of confrontations when photographer Mark Jefferson (Tom Eplin) agrees to help his friend Roger (John Mayall) defend his night club against a handful of organized crime figures. Mark has an added incentive for becoming involved as his ex-girlfriend Carol (Cheri Cameron Newell) sings at the club. But the gangsters are willing to use mayhem and murder in order to take over Roger's business. It appears that the petty mobsters are out to sell illegal weapons to anyone who wants them, especially L.A.'s youth, instead of using the club as a front for a prostitution ring as Roger suspects. Soon Mark and his trusty motorcycle have their work cut out for them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lucifer (2019)
Plot Summary:
In God's own country, the supreme leader of the ruling party dies, leaving a huge vacuum, not only in the electoral and leadership sphere of the party but also that of the state. In the inevitable succession squabble and the power struggle that ensues, the thin line that separates good and bad becomes irrecoverably blurred and out of this seemingly endless mayhem, emerge forces that are hitherto unheard of.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, political, surprise ending
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Mark of the Tortoise (1964)
Plot Summary:
English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by “The Tortoise” Crime Syndicate. He is to pay £ 100,000.00 Pounds to stay alive and not be murdered. After his refusal to pay the money, he is quickly killed. Cyrus‘ nephew, Don Micklem, plans to avenge the death of his uncle and sets out on a quest to expose “The Tortoise“….
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Action, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Sweeney 2 (1978)
Plot Summary:
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 933
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, poliziottesco
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Bloody Friday (1972)
Plot Summary:
Womansing thug Klett is sprung from the courthouse by two accomplices, then sets about planning the big heist of a local bank, equipped with a cache of high-powered weapons he's acquired from an American army outpost. Together with his faithful protégé, who reluctantly on-boards his young girlfriend and her AWOL brother, the quartet bumble their way through the supposedly full-proof plan that aims to deliver them a cool million in cash and a new life in Australia. Predictably, things deteriorate quickly at every turn. (from IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, action thriller, poliziottesco, cult film
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64 Squares (2016)
Plot Summary:
'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But there's a mysterious, dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows, who is all set to checkmate them.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological thriller, twisted, surprise ending