Best movies like My Name Is Vendetta
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Plot Summary:
After old enemies kill his family, a former mafia enforcer and his feisty daughter flee to Milan, where they hide out while plotting their revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Godfather Squad (1974)
Plot Summary:
Bruce Liang plays a Chinese Kung Fu movie star, who during his free time carries on a one-man crusade against drug dealers. The villains trick Liang into signing up to appear in a new martial arts movie. The plan is to kill Our Hero while the cameras are running, and make it look like an accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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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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Thunder (1983)
Plot Summary:
A native America named Thunder returns home only to find that his ancestral burial ground is being destroyed by construction workers. He tries to put a stop to it, but the law is not only not on his side, but he is banished from town, beaten up, and left for dead. Now he wants his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Stick (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ernest (Stick) Stickley just out of prison agrees to help a friend deliver a package. It's a setup and his friend is killed. Stick is going to find out why!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, perverse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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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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Concrete Romance (2007)
Plot Summary:
A climax of brutality and violence after a young man hits some cars in a rush.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Broken (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes a fugitive from the police after he kills one of the men who raped and murdered his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: twisted, crying
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Rocky Handsome (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two bruised hearts, 8-year-old Naomi and Kabir find solace in each other. They are both lonely and nursing psychological scars and mysterious tragedy. Naomi’s mother is a drug addict-peddler and Kabir loses the only person he loves. The talkative kid-next-door becomes the reclusive pawn shop owner’s only reason to live. When her life is endangered, his soul is awakened once again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: crying, action thriller
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Kill 'Em All (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a massive shootout, a mysterious stranger (Van Damme) arrives at a local hospital on the brink of death. Then, a foreign gang brazenly comes to the hospital to hunt him down. His nurse, the sole surviving witness to the follow-up shootout, must face an FBI interrogation that unlocks a plot of international intrigue and revenge. With enough twists and turns, KILL'EM ALL will keep you guessing until the final bullet is fired.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, brutal, bloody, captivating, suspense, cult classic, surprise ending
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Degenerate (2012)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by the images of his own traumatic past, Blair O'Leary (Bobby Field) unknowingly leads his friends down a dark path of destruction. Being a good friend, Marcus (David Yost) lends a helping hand getting Blair, Ralphie (Claude Duhammel), and Kayton (William Lamar) situated in a safe house in the middle of the Arizona desert... but there's a catch. They must pull off a job in order to pay their way. In tight situations friendships can only stretch so far, and what comes around goes around in this twisted tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Bad Day for the Cut (2017)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, powerful, twisted, dark comedy, mad
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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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Contraband (1980)
Plot Summary:
Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a graphic rape scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, cult classic, bloody, disturbing, controversial, action thriller
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K.G.F: Chapter 1 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A period drama set in the 1970s, KGF follows the story of a fierce rebel who rises against the brutal oppression in Kolar Gold Fields and becomes the symbol of hope to legions of downtrodden people.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: kannada, tense, suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, intense, cult classic
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Mumbai Mirror (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mumbai Mirror revolves around Abhijeet Patil, a hardcore action packed cop, who can neither tolerate violence against women nor crime in his area. He comes across a drug racket led by Shetty, who runs several bars in the city. One of the dancers, Rani, knows Abhijeet well and seduces him. She keeps using him under Shetty's directions without realizing that Abhijeet is not the usual cop they were thinking him to be. But soon, a lot of players get involved in this game: a game that takes various twists and turns, with most of them against Abhijeet. But he's sharp enough to fight it out, all alone. With the help of Jia, a reporter from Mumbai Mirror and his colleagues, Abhijeet sets out on a rampage that takes various paths with various turns leading to the final showdown : which can be won by nothing but by checkmating the opponent.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: exciting, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Thalaivaa (2013)
Plot Summary:
A mafia don sends his son out of the country because he doesn't want even a shadow of his life falling on him. Destiny wills otherwise. The son makes an innocuous trip to Mumbai to visit his dad. And ends up filling his father's large shoes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Devil Face, Angel Heart (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lon is an assassin who is deformed. The only man he can trust is his brother, Kwan. When Lon kills a police officer, the officer's partner tries to go after him, but lets him go after seeing his face. Meanwhile, Lon falls for Wendy, the girlfriend of Lon's sadistic boss, Dragon. When Lon agrees to kill Dragon for Wendy, it's a setup. After the kill, Lon is hit by a car and plunges into the river. A year passes by. A new man named Michael arrives, working for Wendy. Meanwhile, the partner of the cop Lon killed is still on the case. He notices a resemblance of the new man to Lon. Is Michael the same person as Lon? If so, what is the motive?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, erotic, heroic
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No Tears for the Dead (2014)
Plot Summary:
Abandoned by his mother shortly after immigrating to America, Gon is raised by the mafia and grows up to become a cold-blooded hitman. Though usually flawless in taking out his targets, Gon makes a terrible mistake of killing an innocent young girl. Swamped by feelings of regret, guilt and shame, Gon no longer wants to be a hitman, but his boss gives him one last mission. So Gon finds himself in Korea, the land of the mother that abandoned him, on the trail of his last target. But in bitter irony, that target is Mo-gyeong, the mother of the dead child.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, disturbing, action thriller, bloody, heroic, hood
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Unbound (2020)
Plot Summary:
Julius Fonteneau has decided to take the law into his own hands after his daughter has gone missing. His only friend supports him while his wife resents him and the police are growing suspicious of his intentions. He must determine right from wrong and make the ultimate decision to kill the man he believes to have taken his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, independent film
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Toro (2016)
Plot Summary:
Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). After Toro decides to leave Romano to get a life free of crime, his last sting fails, resulting one of his brothers dead and he sent to jail. Five years later, Romano realizes that López, Toro's older brother, is robbing him money from his tourism business and he orders to kidnap Diana, López's little daughter, until this one get back the money. Without options, López visits Toro, now a touristic driver with the third grade prison close to get the parole, who only wants to be free to marry his girlfriend Estrella. When Toro accepts to help López and both meet Romano looking for a solution, Toro ends attacking Romano's men and fleeing with Diana, trying to escape from Romano's revenge. But Romano starts a ruthless searching for they three, meanwhile Toro counts the hours to back the prison according to the third grade.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, hood, perverse, noir
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Mahaan (2022)
Plot Summary:
A man's family leaves him when he strays from the path of ideological living in his search for personal freedom. However, as he realizes his ambitions, he also misses the presence of his son in his life. Having fulfilled his dream of becoming a billionaire, does life give him a second chance to be a father?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, cult classic, independent film, epic, masterpiece, cult film
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Truth (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young man named Satya comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do, the once-honest young man meets an underworld boss, Bhiku Mhatre in jail and joins his gang.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, dark, experimental, black comedy, suspense thriller, rough, clever, bleak, realistic
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22 Bullets (2010)
Plot Summary:
Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesn't die.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, exciting, light, brutal, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, rough, bloody
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Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013)
Plot Summary:
JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish history. But during the complicated preparations he meets a woman from his past - Nadja. Martin Hägerström is chosen to go undercover into the Serbian mafia, in order to get its notorious boss Radovan Krajnic behind bars. When an assassination attempt is made on Radovan, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, non-linear
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Earth and Blood (2020)
Plot Summary:
A sawmill owner and his teenage daughter become tangled in a deadly feud when a drug dealer stashes stolen cocaine on their remote property.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, emotional, bloody, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, independent film, brutal
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American Night (2021)
Plot Summary:
A neo-noir set in the New York City's corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York's mafia, Michael Rubino, fight for money, art, power and love.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame
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Hummingbird (2013)
Plot Summary:
Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, emotional, serious, atmospheric, talky, psychological, sexy, romantic, tense, inspirational
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Death Wish (1974)
Plot Summary:
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: controversial, disturbing, tense, grindhouse, intense, cult classic, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir
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The Punisher (2004)
Plot Summary:
When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 169000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, rough, realistic, action packed, brutal, bloody, grindhouse
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Nobody (2021)
Plot Summary:
Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark secrets he fought to leave behind.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 312000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, action thriller, funny, entertaining, suspenseful, bloody, slasher, hood, anamorphic