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Plot Summary:
Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe and Mail journalist Victor Malarek, who decides to go after the shady undercover cops responsible for wrongly accusing Daniel.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: social, tense, suspense, brutal, entertaining
Best tv shows and movies like Target Number One (2020):
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Crisis (2021)
Plot Summary:
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new "non-addictive" painkiller to market.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Belgium
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, social, anamorphic
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The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
Plot Summary:
At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows….
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, political thriller
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Cisco Pike (1971)
Plot Summary:
Cisco is an ex-rock star who has become a drug dealer. A corrupt cop blackmails Cisco to sell marijuana for him. Cisco has one weekend to sell it to his friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, neo noir, surprise ending
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Swallow (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1980s, Tolani Ajao is a bank secretary in Lagos, who finds herself persuaded by her friend Rose Adamson to enter the world of drug trafficking.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Speed Kills (2018)
Plot Summary:
Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire Ben Aronoff leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, cynical
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Shot in the Heart (2001)
Plot Summary:
AND YOU'RE TO BLAME! Honey, you give love a bad name. (The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, serious, talky, gloomy
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The Paperboy (2012)
Plot Summary:
As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, atmospheric, surreal, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, southern gothic, erotic
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Wonderland (2003)
Plot Summary:
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes. You're about to experience both versions.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak, detective, independent film, cult classic, twisted, serious
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The Last Rampage (2017)
Plot Summary:
The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, in the summer of 1978.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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The Preppie Connection (2015)
Plot Summary:
A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense
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Talvar (2015)
Plot Summary:
A hardened cop deals with three conflicting perspectives involving a brutal double murder. The case is complicated as the prime suspects are the parents who supposedly killed their teenage daughter.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, captivating, social, psychological, tense, psychological thriller, mind bending, dark, realistic
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The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake diving resort by the Red Sea.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, non-linear, brutal, powerful
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Owning Mahowny (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, melancholic, enigmatic, sincere, suspenseful, independent film, thought provoking, serious, realistic
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Parkland (2013)
Plot Summary:
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, factual, light, suspense, captivating, emotional, political, social, novela
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Rosewater (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison. Making his directorial debut, Jon Stewart tells the tale of Bahari's months-long imprisonment and interrogation in this powerful and affecting docudrama featuring a potent and performance by Gael García Bernal recounting Bahari's efforts to maintain his hope and his sanity in the face of isolation and persecution-through memories of his family, recollections of the music he loves, and thoughts of his wife and unborn child.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, tense, captivating, political, social, novela, powerful
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Kill the Messenger (2014)
Plot Summary:
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: political, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking, clever, captivating, disturbing, spiritual, neo noir, emotional
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Cocaine Godmother (2017)
Plot Summary:
At the age of 17, Griselda Blanco, made her way to the U.S. with a fake passport with her first husband Carlos. Living in Queens with her three sons, Griselda became enticed by the money the drug world offered, and quickly became embroiled with local drug runners. Griselda masterminded the use of beautiful women, the elderly and children as the mules and created false-bottom suitcases to smuggle cocaine from Colombia.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: factual, tense, captivating, suspense, emotional, independent film
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Double Jeopardy (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, rough, tense, serious, realistic, clever, entertaining, psychological
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True Crime (1999)
Plot Summary:
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, serious, tense, clever, thought provoking, mysterious, action thriller, crime thriller
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Nothing But the Truth (2008)
Plot Summary:
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, political, tricky, twisted, emotional, thought provoking
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True Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, psychological, captivating, serious, enigmatic, suspenseful, intense, tricky, realistic
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The Mule (2018)
Plot Summary:
Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he’s just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 149000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: road movie, crime drama, exciting, serious, historical drama, realistic, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, inspirational
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Loving Pablo (2017)
Plot Summary:
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: factual, serious, exciting, rough, brutal, crime drama, independent film
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The Infiltrator (2016)
Plot Summary:
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, realistic, dramatic, factual, clever, political, detective, novela, action adventure
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The Black Dahlia (2006)
Plot Summary:
Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, detective, stylized, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, realistic, period piece, visual
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Narc (2002)
Plot Summary:
An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads and informants turn up dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, harsh, disturbing
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Changeling (2008)
Plot Summary:
Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 263000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: psychological, heartbreaking, sentimental, tense, bleak, disturbing, touching, suspense, detective, emotional
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Compliance (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sandra is the manager at a fast-food restaurant, and Becky is her teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day, a police officer telephones and accuses Becky of stealing money from a customer’s purse, which Becky vehemently denies. Sandra, overwhelmed by her managerial responsibilities, complies with the officer’s orders to detain Becky, beginning a nightmare that tragically blurs the lines between expedience, prudence, legality and reason.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, sexy, brutal, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, controversial, erotic
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Shot Caller (2017)
Plot Summary:
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: clever, suspense, harsh, twist ending, crime thriller, hood, crime drama, tense, inspirational, sincere
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Zodiac (2007)
Plot Summary:
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 584000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, tense, neo noir, stylized, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, rough, detective