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Plot Summary:
Detective Kostenko is trying to find a group of criminals responsible for killing a policeman.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Station (2001)
Plot Summary:
A seriously wounded gangster with a bag full of money stops at a deserted gas station.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The World in My Pocket (1961)
Plot Summary:
An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go exactly as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Start Liquidation (1984)
Plot Summary:
Army and police are trying to fight crime in West Belarus during Spring of 1945.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Law Enforcer (1986)
Plot Summary:
A police officer is suspended for assaulting gang members who threatened a young woman and her boyfriend. Meanwhile, his fellow officers need help in catching a group of murderous thugs about to make a big time bust.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Angel Was Born (1969)
Plot Summary:
Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Ransom Money (1970)
Plot Summary:
After a kidnapping gone wrong Meeker is sentenced to prison. He escapes with other inmates who take him to collect the ransom he had hidden prior to his incarceration.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending
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The Master Detective and Rasmus (1997)
Plot Summary:
An engineer and his 5-year old son Rasmus are kidnapped by a group who wants to get their hands on the engineer's latest invention. Three kids become witnesses to the kidnapping and decide to follow the kidnappers to an island and attempt to make a rescue.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Family, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: detective
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Fanny Straw-Top (1984)
Plot Summary:
In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, eros
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Crime Partners (2003)
Plot Summary:
Hustlers, players and gangsters rule the urban streets of New York in this story about loyalty and betrayal. Billy Goode, a street-smart crook and his partner Jackie Williams are two small time gangsters with dream of seeing their names in the headlines. After a shooting and robbery that doesn't give them the attention they desire, the partners hook up with the local criie boss Kenyatta who has a major agenda to shake up the city. Meanwhile Detective Benson and Detective Ryan are on the case.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: hood
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Souvenir for the Prosecutor (1989)
Plot Summary:
A seemingly ordinary car accident turns out to be a murder investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Love Shot (2018)
Plot Summary:
A hitman in Koreatown meets a Karaoke hostess only to find out she is his next target.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Weatherman '69 (1989)
Plot Summary:
Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself, this deadpan narrative pays dubious homage to the 1960's radical underground. In this crudely rendered home video of a commune of stoned revolutionaries, the cameras are hand-held, the edits in-camera, and the dialogue is wryly on-target. Pettibon's band of outsiders reenacts a countercultural moment defined by rock music, drugs, and ideological paradox — and in so doing, captures their own late-80's West Coast grunge milieu as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film, experimental
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Polizeiinspektion 1 (1977)
Plot Summary:
Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Crusade (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration:
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The Copycat Criminal (2016)
Plot Summary:
Journalist Maebata Shigeko, young Tsukada Shinichi and elderly Arima Yoshio all suffer from and become involved in a serial kidnap and murder case. Shinichi first discovers a cut arm and handbag from the murder case. Elderly Yoshio's granddaughter is a murder victim. Based on the novel "Mohouhan" by Miyuki Miyabe.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Diner (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kanako Oba contacts a mysterious site for part-time work. Because of this, her life is soon in jeopardy. She is then forced to work at the restaurant Diner as a waitress or she will be killed. Bombero (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is the owner and chef at Diner. The restaurant is membership only and their customers are all contract killers. Based on a novel by Yumeaki Hirayama. (Asian Wiki).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Crimes of Passion: Roses, Kisses and Death (2013)
Plot Summary:
The country estate of Rödbergshyttan is surrounded by heavily fragrant roses in every color. There lives the beautiful Gabriella, who Christer loves, and an invitation to their engagement party is the reason for Puck and Einar to travel there. But the rose-scented idyll soon turn into a stifling background when Puck finds Gabriella's grandfather poisoned in his bed. Little by little we learn that the relations between the people living at the estate is everything but uncomplicated, and that there is a sexual frustration behind every well polished marriage. The question is to what extent beautiful Gabriella is involved in the intrigues and how much of a coincidence it is that her grandfather is killed just when Christer is in the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, detective, period piece, exciting, contemplative
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Rendes-Vous with a Spy (1964)
Plot Summary:
A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Liquidator (2017)
Plot Summary:
A criminal psychologist and a forensic expert works together to track down a serial killer who targets people who have been acquitted of notable crimes and uses their guilt as his modus operandi.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Crime
Country: China
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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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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Equal Standard (2020)
Plot Summary:
An NYPD Detective is shot by one of his own, benevolent brothers in uniform. Communities are ignited - to march for justice. Gangs put their differences aside - for a united fight, an equal opportunity. “That people not be judged by the color of their skin but for the content of their character.” The movement and unity impacts City society and leads to a Blue Wall intervention within the Police force. White cops lust for change and act on it - by flushing out racism. Not an easy fight. In the end, what was considered impossible, became possible.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Broken Shore (2013)
Plot Summary:
An evocative crime thriller that captures the chilling action and sharp wit of Peter Temple's acclaimed novel The Broken Shore. In this gripping adaptation, Detective Joe Cashin uncovers a web of lies, betrayal and police corruption in a small coastal town where tensions are at boiling point and the shocking face behind the community's respectable mask is slowly unveiled.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
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A Bunch of Bastards (2021)
Plot Summary:
An isolated villa, a family just like the others. Michele has remarried beautiful Damiana, and lives with her and her daughter Fiore, a seductive teen with whom he has an intricate relationship. In the middle of the night, Sergio, an ex-con, bursts in the villa and abducts the family. his mission: retrieve and bring back to Caligola, the man who hired him, some important documents, now seeminlgy buried somewhere in the greenhouse near the house.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Original Gangster (2020)
Plot Summary:
The stoic chronicles of Castor, orphaned as a child, forced to survive in the wild and his colorful journey through the criminal underworld of London.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Sins of the Father (2019)
Plot Summary:
Police unearth a sinful conspiracy when they investigate the murder of a pastor's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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The Hooligan Wars (2012)
Plot Summary:
A bar fight leaves up-and-coming professional footballer Andy injured and out of the game. Needing money to support his pregnant wife and himself, he buys an ice cream van and gets to work. When a gang of Polish drug runners starts to irritate him, he joins a British gang involved in football hooliganism for protection.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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The Fall of the Krays (2016)
Plot Summary:
The brutal brothers from Bethnal Green are back and bloodier than ever in Fall of the Krays. Following on from the ferocious Rise Of The Krays, Fall of the Krays picks up the story of the infamous Firm as the cracks start to show in the brothers business plans and their sanity. Having secured their empire and their infamy, the brothers must now fight to keep hold of both as the obsession of one police officer becomes entwined with a burgeoning romance and a dangerous state of mind for Reggie and Ronnie respectively.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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8 of Diamonds (2006)
Plot Summary:
A diamond heist goes wrong when one of the thieves gets shot during the escape after swallowing a priceless diamond. Deception, blackmail, and murder schemes overshadow the lives of the eight people left chasing the diamond.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Essex Boys Retribution (2013)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years after Britain's most notorious gangland murders, the next generation of Essex Boys vie for control as revenge is sought by all sides.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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El Padrino II: Border Intrusion (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing