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Plot Summary:
Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper. Jason thinks it's his job to teach Billy about crime, drugs and women. Little does he know that Billy has his eyes on Jason's own wife, Lisa. When an ecstasy deal goes bad, Jason vows revenge on the boss, while Billy looks to take out Jason. Before long, bodies start turning up.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, psychological, realistic, neo noir, crime drama, crime thriller, independent film
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Black's Game (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the mid to late 90's, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of pushers that took control of Iceland's underworld.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, rough, bleak, stylized, neo noir
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Killing Time (1998)
Plot Summary:
After the mobster who murdered his partner is acquitted, semicorrupt detective Robert Bryant hires a beautiful female assassin, Maria, to kill him. When he discovers that he cannot afford Maria's services, Bryant is forced to hire another assassin, Madison, to kill her. Maria survives the doublecross and sets out to collect what's owed to her, one way or another.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Casual football hooligan Mike Jacobs is going nowhere in life when he meets old friend Eddie Hill at a football match that turns nasty off the pitch. Under Eddie’s tutelage he soon finds himself inducted into the world of credit card fraud, where organised gangs withdraw hundreds of thousands of pounds from cash machines every night. As Mike becomes seduced by the money and women that come with his new lifestyle, the dangers increase and he soon finds events spiralling beyond his control.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic
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Born to Be King (2000)
Plot Summary:
Triad member Chicken is designated by Taiwan's San Luen Gang to marry Nanako, the daughter of the fifth generation leader of the Yamada Gang in Japan. Later, the leader of the triad group gets murdered. Actually, all the San Luen Gang members suspect Chicken attacked their leader Liu, in order to make a chance for him to rule the Gang and thus have adopted an extremely hostile attitude towards him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, realistic
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The Fall of the Essex Boys (2013)
Plot Summary:
The rise and fall of the Essex Boys gang - the drugs, the violence and, of course, the murders. The real story is the most shocking of all.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense
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Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes (1974)
Plot Summary:
An epic battle rages lawn on the streets of Harlem between Italian mobsters and black gangsters. The battles are intense, the more each side tries to oust another. Both groups use their best killers. Since it is a brutal gangster transvestites to be careful who kills with his high-heeled shoes.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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The Heavy (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take revenge against his brother, our anti-hero must come to terms with the truth in a world where you can trust no one and loyalty is rare.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, perverse, non-linear
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The Big I Am (2010)
Plot Summary:
A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir
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Shooters (2002)
Plot Summary:
Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds from the job that landed him inside, J soon talks him into getting involved in one last scam.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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24 Hours in London (2000)
Plot Summary:
London gangster Christian has a plan to kill off the opposition, but things get messy when a witness survives.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending
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The Fighter (1983)
Plot Summary:
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, poliziottesco, suspense
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Ready 2 Die (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, crime drama, independent film
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I Against I (2012)
Plot Summary:
Focusing on the timeless themes of jealousy, murder and betrayal, 'I Against I' is set over one night and utilises different time lines to reveal a dark and unexpected conclusion to a simple mystery premise. The main protagonists, opposite in character, take a frantic journey into a desolate nocturnal world with the common aim of survival, though once completed, the plot reveals a trap from which escape may be impossible.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, tense, captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Face (1997)
Plot Summary:
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of recriminations.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hyena (2014)
Plot Summary:
Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood
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Pusher (2012)
Plot Summary:
In London, a drug dealer grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord. The more desperate his behavior, the more isolated he becomes until there is nothing left standing between him and the bullet his debtors intend to fire his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, hood, realistic, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, freeze frame
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Outlaw (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, dark, grindhouse, hood, crime drama, bleak, surprise ending
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Pusher (1996)
Plot Summary:
A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, talky, intense, rough, captivating, suspenseful, neo noir, serious, cynical
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Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
Plot Summary:
Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense, bloody, grindhouse, hood, rough, suspenseful
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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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Get Carter (1971)
Plot Summary:
Michael Caine is Jack Carter, a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brothers death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why. Tough gangster film with grim humour.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, tense, dark, grim, cult classic, bleak, brutal, exciting, suspense
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Brighton Rock (2010)
Plot Summary:
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, rough, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, noir, neo noir, hood
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Dead Man's Bluff (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head. There are more than 20 Russian-movie stars in the film, but you will not be able to recognize them immediately since they are all in disguise.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: black comedy, realistic, buddy comedy, dark comedy, serious, suspenseful
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Gangster No. 1 (2000)
Plot Summary:
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: intense, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak, stylized, dark, neo noir, dramatic, controversial
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Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal New York underworld, he enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution. Assisted by his two brothers-in-crime, Carlito is on the fast track to becoming Spanish Harlem's ultimate kingpin. He quickly learns, however, that the only way to survive at the top is through loyalty to his friends and respect for the rules of the street. (FILMAFFINITY).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, hood, crime drama, action packed, surprise ending
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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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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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Shiner (2000)
Plot Summary:
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic, neo noir, serious, independent film
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Sugarhouse (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tom is a middle-class city boy whose life has reached breaking point. he thinks D - a young desperate drug addict can give him what he needs. But what D’s offering comes with more than just a price tag…. Tom is completely out of his depth when he finds himself in D's abandoned warehouse attempting to do a deal with him. The two enter into an irrational, deadly game of cat and mouse. The tense drama escalates when local crime lord, Hoodwink, wakes up to find his gun missing. With this impending threat at their backs, both men play an intense game of cat and mouse; scrambling to cut a deal and make sense of the very lives they may be about to lose.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, hood, cult classic, realistic
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The Business (2005)
Plot Summary:
During the '80s, a young man named Frankie dreams of escaping London's South East region, and his mother's thug of a boyfriend gives him just the opportunity. After beating up the abusive beau, Frankie runs off to Spain, where he lands a job delivering a package to the dapper Playboy Charlie, a gangster who takes him under his wing. Working as Charlie's driver, Frankie is immersed in a world of fast cars and pretty women -- but all the excess could be his undoing.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, dark, crime drama, indie film, crime thriller, realistic, stylized