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Plot Summary:
The Arsenaults, a close-knit family who profit from illegal hunting, have ruled the roost for several generations in Témiscouata, Quebec. The return to the fold of Anthony, the impetuous youngest of the family, then the arrival of Émilie, a radio host who exercises an ascendancy over Anthony and his older brother Adam, will come to test the harmony of the clan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
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Out of Exile (2022)
Plot Summary:
Recently paroled thief Gabriel Russell tries to balance his life and mend a troubled family as an FBI agent hunts him down, along with his crew after a botched armored car robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Flagrant Désir (1986)
Plot Summary:
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspector Morrison suspects. If so, why? What secrets this family keeps?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
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Playing with Fire (1985)
Plot Summary:
Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Sleeping Waters (1992)
Plot Summary:
Whatever happened to my father?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 96 min
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The State of the Dead (2002)
Plot Summary:
When the war in Yugoslavia breaks out, an army officer who's ethnic Slovenian yet still believes in Yugoslavia, decides to move to Belgrade. The country continues to fall apart and so does his family failing to find acceptance there.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
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Golden Night (1977)
Plot Summary:
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and sets about getting revenge on his family members. He sends each one a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. Wandering over the streets of Paris, Michel is the haunted and hunted, as he himself hunts his villainous kin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychotronic
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Riverhead (2016)
Plot Summary:
A blood feud divides a small town in rural Newfoundland.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Beautiful Secret (2015)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years ago, singer Wang Xuan spent all her savings trying to treat the illness of her daughter, but to no avail. In the end, she had to give her up for adoption, while hiding the truth from the world. Jiang Mei Li was adopted by Jiang Wei Guo and his wife, and suffers from amnesia after contracting a high fever. Unable to find her daughter, Wang Xuan decided to put all her love into her step daughter Xu Rou Lin. Twenty years later, Ruo Lin enters a singing competition to win back her ex-boyfriends, producer Guan Yi. While coming out to support her sister Jiang Mei Yan, Jiang Mei Li ends up being a competitor in the same competition. During the course of the competition, complicated relationships between love interests and family occur.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Long Live the Family! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Libor, a former teacher, enjoys a well-paid position as a bank manager, living in a luxurious villa outside Prague. His business partners are taken into custody and the authorities have a few questions for him to answer. Rather than wait around, he decides to take off to Moravia with his wife and two children. In the process, he pretends that everything is normal, rediscovers the value of family life, meets up with a former colleague lost in provincial obscurity, and becomes the object of a manhunt. Libor is not a criminal type, merely someone who signs cheques and is drawn into a business world failing to recognise its own criminality (he doesn’t even flee the country).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, realistic, sincere, exciting
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Up Against Them All (2004)
Plot Summary:
A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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A Proper Scandal (1984)
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Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is brought into the police station in Turin for stealing flower pots from the cemetery. He is rather brutally interrogated, and then because he has no idea who he is or where he belongs, he is put into an asylum for the mentally disturbed. After his photograph is published in the newspapers, a woman shows up at the institution claiming that he is Professor Canella, her missing and wealthy husband. The news obtains the release of the amnesiac, but his claim is quickly and hotly contested by another family, arguing that the man is an imposter. As a result, his case goes back to court and in the meantime, the "professor" is put in jail. As the courtroom drama continues, there are various clues that suggest whether or not the amnesiac has been accurately identified and by whom.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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The Father (1971)
Plot Summary:
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, provided that the landlord supports his wife and children. As there is little difference for the father between ten years in prison or ten years in a foreign country, he regards this to be the best solution.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Give Us Tomorrow (1978)
Plot Summary:
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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My Daughter, My Angel (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nathalie Dagenais is a 19 year old girl studying to be a lawyer. New to the city of Montreal, she will soon discover the world of porn. One day, her father (Michel Côté) comes across her picture on the Internet and wants to find her and before she makes what he thinks is a mistake. The story goes from past to present, when a police officer investigates the death of Max, a man who Nathalie knew.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, sexual, sexy
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Just a Game (1983)
Plot Summary:
In a strangely aloof and uninvolved story of incest, director Brigitte Sauriol takes a certain distance in her treatment of a couple with two daughters on a summer vacation in Quebec. Scenes with the father and older daughter soon reveal that an incestuous relationship has been going on for a long time, without the mother's knowledge. The older daughter tries to run away at one point and talk to a friend about her plight, but that does not turn out successfully. She begins to suspect her father is starting to violate her sister as well. When the mother accidentally catches her husband with the younger daughter, she reacts with anger, but after her husband promises to reform, she calms down and eventually takes his side against her daughters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: ambiguous 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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The Secret Life of Happy People (2006)
Plot Summary:
Élevé par des parents parfaits dans une banlieue proprette, frère cadet d'une fille à qui tout réussit et flanqué d'un ami tombeur, le pauvre Thomas se sent bien ordinaire. Alors qu'il tente désespérément de terminer ses études en architecture avec succès, le jeune homme rencontrera Audrey, une belle ténébreuse qui lui donnera des ailes. Évidemment, le bonheur n'est jamais simple et la vie peut être parfois cruelle.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating
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A Father's Legacy (2020)
Plot Summary:
On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) and holds him hostage in his own home. As the days pass and the secrets about their past are revealed, they learn that they might not have been looking for each other...but they may have been brought together for a reason.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Secrets of a Gold Digger Killer (2021)
Plot Summary:
Multimillionaire Steven Beard, a retired broadcasting executive, who fell hard for Celeste , an attractive waitress who served him his nightly cocktail at the local country club in Austin, Texas.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, emotional
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Citizen Gangster (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. He discovers a way to do both, robbing banks Hollywood style, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, stylized, depressing, neo noir, melancholic, intelligent, interesting
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Bad Hurt (2015)
Plot Summary:
Elaine and Ed Kendall have more than their share of grief and suffering. Once a young couple in love they now struggle for a sense of stability in their Staten Island home. Their eldest son is suffering from the physical and psychological effects of war; his younger brother takes it upon himself to bring him peace and relief. Meanwhile, their special needs daughter brings another kind of chaos to the family. Even though Ed and Elaine explore options for her care, they’re really just hanging on to hope that things improve somehow.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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My Mom's Darkest Secrets (2019)
Plot Summary:
When 21-year-old Ashley Beck-Ford finds her biological mother, Sara Hillman, online, she is shocked and thrilled… But building a relationship with her long-lost mother proves to be more dangerous than Ashley could have ever imagined. Soon after meeting her, Sara’s husband is murdered. Ashley soon finds herself caught in a web of lies and deceit in which she isn’t sure if her mother is innocent or guilty of that murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Night Run (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dennis is a taxi driver trying to start out his own company. One day, he gets the opportunity to buy a scarce and expensive but lucrative license.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
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Snow (2015)
Plot Summary:
"Snow" is a film for the choice, betrayal and forgiveness between brothers and sons, narrated on the background of the harsh reality in an abandoned place.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Ukraine
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Chris Watts stoically yet smirkingly pleaded to television cameras for the safe return of his missing pregnant wife Shanann and their two young daughters, dark secrets loomed just beneath the surface.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, emotional
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Betrayed by Lies (2018)
Plot Summary:
A married woman discovers her husband is living a double life in Paris, jeopardizing not only her marriage but her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Séraphin: Heart of Stone (2002)
Plot Summary:
Séraphin unfolds against the severe and achingly beautiful landscape of rural Quebec in 1889, where young lovers are torn from each other when a bankrupt shopkeeper forces his daughter into an arranged marriage to save his business. But true love cannot be denied.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, gloomy, entertaining
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A Quiet Life (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, noir, neo noir, tragic
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Outlaw Country (2012)
Plot Summary:
A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty where music, love, hope and tragedy collide. Created as a pilot for a TV Series which was not taken up, this has now been aired as a TV Movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, independent film, rough
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Missing Bride (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela