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Plot Summary:
Set in 1987 when cell phones were car phones and any respectable bank robber still used a gun. Two life long mid-life crisis friends decide to rob banks. With the help of an ex-con "old head" who had 25 years to think about how to get it right, what could possibly go wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Paranoia (2011)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is terrorizing a small town. Mark Bishop (Brad Jones) has just killed an intruder who attacked him in his home. Only he's not sure if he killed the real serial killer, but knows he doesn't want the attention. Mark has to get rid of the body and avoid the authorities. But he can't shake the feeling that the real killer is still out there.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, unusual plot structure, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy
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Signpost To Murder (1964)
Plot Summary:
An escaped mental patient, reported to be homicidal, hides out in a woman's rural home. Director George Englund's 1965 thriller stars Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare and Alan Napier.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: noir, surprise ending, twist ending, crying
Similar in 77%
The Loner (2016)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by memories as a child soldier in 1980s Iran, Behrouz finds himself in bustling, neon-soaked Los Angeles, working to become a real estate agent and live a simple life with his girlfriend Oksana. But Behrouz’s attempts at a normal life become increasingly difficult as his opium addiction and gambling habit rear their ugly heads, and he struggles to leave behind his past with the Iranian mafia. Soon Behrouz and Oksana find themselves caught between the feuding heads of the Iranian and Russian mobs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Catharsis (2009)
Plot Summary:
An ex cop arrives in Athens after the murder of his wife. Approached by the chief of police, he reluctantly agrees to help take down a mafia ring. Thus begins a circle of blood that becomes more and more violent as the hero goes deeper into the case. When he is asked to abandon his mission, he refuses; nothing seems able to stop the violent outburst of a man desperately looking for catharsis.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Permanent (2014)
Plot Summary:
Six unrelated people must push through their past and the mob underworld to discover what has controlled each of them all these years. Sex, Drugs, Guns and God have created a series of events which will leave each of them changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Experiment in Terror (1962)
Plot Summary:
Kelly Sherwood is terrorized by a man with an asthmatic voice who plans to use her to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works. He threatens to kill her teenage sister Toby, if she tells the police. However she manages to contact F.B.I. agent Ripley.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, retro, noir, scary, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Lee Rock II (1991)
Plot Summary:
The second part of the trilogy chronicling the rise and fall of Hong Kong's top corrupt official. During this time period, Lee Rock enjoys his sucess and has found a new love. But jealousy within the ranks and a new departmrnt designed to clean up the corruption within the system is threating the comfort that Lee Rock enjoys.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: neo noir, crime drama
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One Step Behind (2005)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after police discovers the murder of three friends, police inspector Wallander finds his friend and colleague Svedberg dead. First, it is believed that Svedberg killed himself but Wallander soon discovers links between Svedberg, the three friends and a fourth person, a young woman in a mental hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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A Singular Crime (2022)
Plot Summary:
Rosario in the 80s. The disappearance of a man during the military dictatorship. Two young people from the court must do everything possible to solve the case while facing police corruption and various dangers that put their lives at risk.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense
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Orders Signed in White (1974)
Plot Summary:
A gang raid a bank, making off with a nice tidy sum and head off to a hideout in the mountains to take refuge (with a few women in tow to keep them company).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Asian Cop: High Voltage (1994)
Plot Summary:
Donnie Yen is back with a vengeance in this electric action thriller. The star of Fist of Fury, Hero and Highlander goes up against Hong Kong's deadliest gangsters in a no holds barred duel to the death. Donnie Yen has proven to be one of martial arts most reliable and dedicated martial arts stars. Through the years he's been the lead in his own films, as well as co-starring with the modern legends such as Jet Li and Jackie Chan.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Homicide (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bobby Gold is a career cop who is reassigned from a hunt for a cop killer to the investigation of the murder of an old Jewish woman in Baltimore, and in the process finds himself exploring his own sense of identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, tense, clever, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, psychological, rough
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The Alpha Caper (1973)
Plot Summary:
A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Endure (2010)
Plot Summary:
After a shocking photo of a young woman is found inside the twisted metal of a fatal car crash, veteran detective Emory Lloyd must risk everything to identify and find the woman before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, detective
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The Assassin (2007)
Plot Summary:
Assassin John Brown, a heroin-addicted, recent war veteran, is hired to take out a local nightclub owner. When Brown slips, he finds himself on the run from both police and the shadowy corporation that hired him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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Kojak: The Belarus File (1985)
Plot Summary:
Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty, detective
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Black Friday (2007)
Plot Summary:
Amy Carlson is the woman in charge of a bank's security system. Two dirty cops (played by the slightly washed-up duo of Judd Nelson and Thomas Ian Griffith) kidnap her daughter and a friend to force her to open the safety deposit box of one of her bank's clients and give to them its content.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Evil Nanny (2016)
Plot Summary:
A couple hires a live-in nanny to watch the offspring while they work. At first, everything goes perfectly, but when an unsafe incident means the parents no longer want the nanny around, they find out this nanny is savvy at not being evicted from her live-in situation. So savvy, in fact, that she can make these parents' lives a true nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, captivating, suspense, psychotronic
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Living & Dying (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. As the police surround the building and the killers begin methodically executing the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic
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The Dead Pool (1988)
Plot Summary:
Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of actors and musicians. By the time Harry learns that the murders are a part of a sick game to predict the deaths of celebrities before they happen, it may be too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, neo noir, detective, suspenseful, exciting, action thriller, perverse, cult classic
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Stand Off (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of elite female bank robbers are thrown into a Mexican stand off when they discover that someone on their team might be a snitch for the cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Cop Car (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, road movie, intense, psychological, bloody, suspenseful, cliffhanger, offbeat, independent film, grindhouse
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The Bedroom Window (1987)
Plot Summary:
Terry Lambert is sleeping with Sylvia, the wife of his boss. One night, while in Terry's apartment, Sylvia witnesses a man assault a young woman, Denise, on the road below. Not wanting to reveal her affair with Terry, she keeps quiet. Terry instead steps forward, trying to help nab the criminal. However, he never saw the suspect and, when his lies are uncovered, the police begin to suspect his motives.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, neo noir, intense, psychological, realistic, serious, sexy, psychosexual thriller, detective
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Boy Missing (2016)
Plot Summary:
Víctor is a child who is found casually roaming by a country road. His mother, Patricia, a well-known lawyer specialist in media trails, realizes about it and she goes to the hospital, where explains to the police that Víctor is deaf, and he's unable to talk, speaking using sign language. In the police headquarter Víctor explains that he was kidnapped by a strange man when we was entering to the school. The police identifies a possible suspect named Charlie, a man with money troubles and an 8-months pregnant wife who can't explain where he was when Víctor was kidnapped from the school. Seeing the inability of the police to arrest Charlie after some failed attempts to meet Víctor, Patricia contacts Raúl, Patricia's former love interest and Víctor's father, to ask him that he or a friends of him threat seriously Charlie. But when is discovered that Víctor made a false identification, Patricia tries to stop Raúl, starting a chain of events which consequences will be out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, surprise ending, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, clever, twist ending, spooky
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Empire State (2013)
Plot Summary:
After failing to get into the police academy, Chris Potamitis (Hemsworth), settles for a security guard job with the EMPIRE STATE Armored Truck Company. He makes the mistake of mentioning the company's lax security to his best friend, Eddie (Angarano) & is unwittingly drawn into an elaborate scheme to rob the abundant amounts of cash being stored there - resulting in the largest cash heist in U.S. History. As the stakes continue to rise, Chris and Eddie must outwit James Ransone (Johnson), the veteran NYPD Detective hot on their trail, & the local crime bosses that want to know who pulled a job on their turf.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, surprise ending, thought provoking, captivating, visually appealing, tense, teen
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Marauders (2016)
Plot Summary:
An untraceable group of elite bank robbers is chased by a suicidal FBI agent who uncovers a deeper purpose behind the robbery-homicides.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: intense, enigmatic, clever, melancholic, action thriller, anamorphic, breathtaking, thought provoking, confusing, bad ending
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Cop (1988)
Plot Summary:
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, perverse, cult classic, scary, rough, serious
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Now You See Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 695000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, clever, entertaining, suspense, intellectual, twisted, breathtaking, psychological, biting, twist ending
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Manhunter (1986)
Plot Summary:
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, detective, tense, scary, psychological, atmospheric, creepy
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Inside Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
Bank robber Dalton Russell enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors and takes hostages, working methodically and without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop and a high-profile 'fixer' enter high-stakes negotiations.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 392000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: clever, detective, tricky, suspense, twisted, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, neo noir