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Plot Summary:
After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, twist ending, suspenseful, exciting, tense, noir, neo noir, surprise ending, tragic
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Diamond 13 (2009)
Plot Summary:
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful
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The Bandit (1996)
Plot Summary:
The epic adventures of the legendary Baran the Bandit following his release from prison. After serving 35 years, it is no surprise that the world has changed dramatically. Still, Baran can't help but be shocked to discover that his home village is now underwater thanks to the construction of a new dam. He then heads for Istanbul to get revenge upon his former best friend, the man who snitched on him and stole his lover Keje. Along the way, Baran teams up with Cumali, a tough young punk who finds the thief's old-fashioned ways rather quaint. When Cumali gets into deep trouble with a crime boss, Baran adds another vengeful task to his roster.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: dorama, political, art house, exciting, tense, epic, serious, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful
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The Outside Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, poliziottesco, french noir, cult film
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Colt 45 (2014)
Plot Summary:
The young police man Vincent is the best in his class, and denies to be recruited to the special forces. But when the corrupt Milo manages to get a grip on him, his life is turned into a living nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, suspenseful, suspense, serious, realistic
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Borsalino (1970)
Plot Summary:
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, noir, poliziottesco, french noir, vintage
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The Second Wind (2007)
Plot Summary:
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, sexy, neo noir, crime drama
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Rivals (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favourite.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, neo noir, emotional, realistic
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The Code (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his best friend Yanis, are mobsters and his brother is a small time delinquent. Yanis tries to bring Dris back to his gang, and uses his former lover Nina to seduce him, taking him to expensive places to feel the importance of big money. Dris fights against the temptation, but an event will route him back to Yanis' gang and in a fight between gangs with tragic consequences for the whole community.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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Ultimate Heist (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own choices. But the gang's inner circle is engraved in blood. To escape, not only does Anton have to counter his own destiny, but also the man who has sworn to bring his father down.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense
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Vault (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of small time criminals in 1975 attempt to pull off the biggest heist in American history; stealing over $30 million from the Mafia in the smallest state in the union, Rhode Island.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting
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Force of Execution (2013)
Plot Summary:
Seagal stars as mob kingpin Mr. Alexander, an old-school boss who rules his criminal empire with both nobility and brutality. For a simple prison hit, he sends his best enforcer and protégé Roman Hurst (Foster). When the hit goes wrong, Hurst is forced to pay the price of his failure: banishment in the city that he almost once ruled. But a war is brewing for the soul of the city between Alexander, a cold-blooded gangster known as 'The Iceman" (Rhames) and a merciless Mexican cartel. Hurst, with the help of an ex-con restaurant owner (Trejo) who has a few hidden moves of his own, will rediscover his own will to survive the coming conflict and to wreak vengeance on those who have wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
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Guilty by Association (2003)
Plot Summary:
There is no honor without truth. When gang wars spin out of control in downtown Washington D.C., one man steps onto the battlefirld to hunt down a ruthless killer. A young man has been released from prison and is determined to build a new life for himself. Unfortunately, without any prospects in sight, he gets lured back into the only world he knows....crime. He gets in touch with his former best friend who has since "made it big" as a drug dealer during his time in prison. But what starts out as a partnership which promises to get them both out of the projects, soon turns rotten as money comes between the two. As loyalties are divided, anger and violence erupt... destroying anyone who gets in the way. Innocent victims get caught in the crossfire and its up to one man, Police Lieutenet Redding (Morgan Freeman) to take matters into his own hands and stop the needless deaths before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious
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Doberman (1997)
Plot Summary:
The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: brutal, cult classic, stylized, neo noir, controversial, hood, action thriller, exciting, rough, serious
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Back in the Day (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, hood, neo noir
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The Connection (2014)
Plot Summary:
Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, noir, neo noir, captivating, hood, powerful, realistic
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36th Precinct (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the french police before creating this story, which in part is taken from real facts that happened during the 1980s in France.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, disturbing, suspense, intense, neo noir
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Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, tense, witty, breathtaking
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New World (2013)
Plot Summary:
An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, serious, intense, rough, psychological
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Monument Ave. (1998)
Plot Summary:
Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even from their and Teddy's relatives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film, neo noir, cult classic, rough, bleak, realistic
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Consignment (2007)
Plot Summary:
Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Crew (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during the job, Brennan must turn to rival crook Franner to avert an all-out gangland war.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
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Easy Money (2010)
Plot Summary:
A three-tiered story centered around drugs and organized crime, and focused on a young man who becomes a runner for a coke dealer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, rough, tense, sincere, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, noir, twisted
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Bonded by Blood (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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22 Bullets (2010)
Plot Summary:
Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesn't die.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, exciting, light, brutal, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, rough, bloody
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Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013)
Plot Summary:
JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish history. But during the complicated preparations he meets a woman from his past - Nadja. Martin Hägerström is chosen to go undercover into the Serbian mafia, in order to get its notorious boss Radovan Krajnic behind bars. When an assassination attempt is made on Radovan, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, non-linear
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Madso's War (2010)
Plot Summary:
A power vacuum develops when the top mob boss flees a federal indictment.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, independent film, rough
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Son of a Gun (2014)
Plot Summary:
Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but protection comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, stylized, exciting, suspenseful, neo noir, surprise ending, noir, bloody, suspense, crime drama
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Lawless (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 251000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: intense, suspense, harsh, stylized, entertaining, atmospheric, bad ending, rough, bleak, serious
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Point Blank (2010)
Plot Summary:
Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, intense, unusual plot structure, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, atmospheric
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The Intouchables (2011)
Plot Summary:
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 909000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: inspirational, feel good, touching, emotional, motivational, uplifting, sincere, realistic, dramatic, thought provoking