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Plot Summary:
A teacher takes a student to his house in the slum, but on arrival discovered that drug traffickers killed his parents and now are at your demand.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Streets of Rio (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Guardian Angel (1987)
Plot Summary:
A journalist investigates the smuggling of gypsy children on the black market and tries to save a young boy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Crack (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two buddies from the hood are forced to rob a mafia-backed crack house or go to prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Don't Talk to Strange Men (1962)
Plot Summary:
An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone, and nearly becomes the victim of an attacker.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: noir, independent film, british noir
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Naakaa (2017)
Plot Summary:
Goldie, a small time smuggler of Barhabise who is in need of a profiting consignment to recover from his current bankruptcy. He gets an emergency call from a local smuggler and businessman of the area to rescue a Tibetan girl and her transporter illegally from one of the sub-border point to Barhabise.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags:
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An Obsession (1997)
Plot Summary:
An Obsession is Aoyama's remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog ("Nora inu," 1949). The basic plot situation is the same: a cop, after losing his gun to a killer, sets out on a search for the criminal who in the end is all too disturbingly similar to the hero. Under Kurosawa's humanistic world view, Stray Dog presented the fundamentally shared nature of Japanese suffering amidst the Occupation and postwar poverty. An Obsession, however, is different.The film begins with a fin-de-siecle, apocalyptic sense of insanity which Kurosawa's humanism could never tolerate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, detective, cult film
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A Complex Plot About Women, Alleys and Crimes (1985)
Plot Summary:
Rabal is a blind, elderly leader of the Camorra whose son ends up dead as he attempts to rape Molina. Somebody has stuck the corpse strategically with a hypodermic needle, which is to become the signature of a series of killings of Naples drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, poliziottesco
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The Unscrupulous Ones (1962)
Plot Summary:
This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the "cafajestes"). The two plan a blackmail coup against a rich old man, using nude pictures of a lady on a deserted beach. But things don't always happen as planned.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual
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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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One Man Against the Organization (1975)
Plot Summary:
An airport employee switches a pack of drugs for baking soda and absconds to Barcelona, meanwhile the drug-runners are on his trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, eurospy
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Jai Gangaajal (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film features SP Abha Mathur who is appointed the first female SP of Bankipur district, Bihar. She then goes against the Local MLA of Bankipur and henchmen of Lakhisarai district.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, exciting, contemplative
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Midnight (1998)
Plot Summary:
On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Brazil
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Glue Sniffer (1999)
Plot Summary:
Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the child becomes part of the clashes between drug gangs and corrupt policemen.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Born Bad (1997)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers rob a bank, causing a deadly standoff.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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And Then You Die (1987)
Plot Summary:
A drug deal must deal with the mafia, Hells Angels, and police who want to arrest him. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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One Nite in Mongkok (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hong Kong nihilism. December 22, a street quarrel leads to the death of a gang leader's son. Next day, he seeks revenge on his brother, a rival boss. He calls on Liu, a fixer, to import a hit man from the mainland. Lai Fu, a tough and youthful hick, arrives with a day pass. The cops, led by the morose Milo, hear about the killer; they open a full-scale Christmas Eve operation to find the warring brothers and Lai Fu. Lai Fu rescues a hooker, Dan Dan, from a sadist and asks her to help him find his way around Mongkok. By nightfall, Liu has double crossed Lai Fu, the brothers are hiding, the cops are everywhere, and Lai Fu and Dan Dan are on the run. Peace on earth, good will to all?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, realistic, neo noir, crime drama, black and white
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Assault on the Pay Train (1962)
Plot Summary:
Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Chronically Unfeasible (2000)
Plot Summary:
Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, thought provoking, serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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The Collaborators (2015)
Plot Summary:
A tale of two art students who, after a horrific event, are forced to take off across country in a stolen taxi to evade the law.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, road movie
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Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)
Plot Summary:
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tuff cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: detective, bleak, realistic, grim, hood, crime drama, perverse, rough, serious, captivating
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Last Stop 174 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of June 12th 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, social, crime drama, spectacular
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Pixote (1980)
Plot Summary:
Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old transvesite hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape where they make their living by the life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: disturbing, depressing, bleak, realistic, rough, atmospheric, serious, political, controversial, hood
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Tsotsi (2005)
Plot Summary:
The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just stolen. He decides that it his responsibility to take care of the baby and in the process learns that maybe the gangster life isn’t the best way.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, emotional, harsh, rough, captivating, dramatic, art house, realistic, inspirational
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Abusing Protocol (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his brother (Tommy), RJ moves in with Gang Leader (Cane) and quickly finds himself wrapped up in a world of abuse and drugs. Local businessman (Dave) is watching the things he loves disappear in front of his very eyes. What happens when these two people, with nothing to lose, abuse protocol?.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Immortal (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ciro's body is sinking in the dark waters of the Gulf of Naples. And as it sinks deeper and deeper, memories emerge. The sounds muffled by the water merge with the screams of fleeing people. It is 1980, the earth shakes, the palace collapses, but under the rubble you can hear the cry of a newborn baby still alive. Ten years later, we find that new-born baby as it survives as it can on the streets of Naples, nobody's son. Vivid memories of a criminal education that made him what he is: Ciro Di Marzio, the Immortal. Prequel of the "Gomorra" tv show.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, harsh, rough, intense, hood
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Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within (2010)
Plot Summary:
After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: political, tense, realistic, brutal, unusual plot structure, harsh, stylized, intense, serious, suspenseful
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Elite Squad (2007)
Plot Summary:
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA, Argentina
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, serious, intense, realistic, social, harsh, rough, grindhouse, suspense
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City of Men (2007)
Plot Summary:
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, suspense, harsh, disturbing, rough, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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City of God (2002)
Plot Summary:
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 788000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized, visual, cult classic, visually stunning, captivating, emotional