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Plot Summary:
Sang-ho is an ordinary high school student. His dream is to enter the military academy under the influence of his father who is an army colonel. As entering high school, he became friends with Jae-gu, Chang-bae, Kyung-chul, Hong-kyu and Sang-sik. They grouped a soccer team called 'Tiger', building up friendship by playing soccer. Sang-ho and his friends ran into group of fight with seniors, these incidents made everybody in school to misunderstand them as they were serious group of gangster. When Sang-ho gets becomes close with a girl whose boyfriend is a boss of another school's gangster group, things are going worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sugarless (2012)
Plot Summary:
Shiiba Gaku has transferred to Kushima High School which is called ‘Windmill’ because of the windmill monument on its rooftop. His ambition is to get to the top of the school. Bad boys like Tobe, the leader of Hydra, a gang of delinquents; and Shiro, rumoured to be the strongest of the first year students, crowd the school grounds. Gaku immediately picks a fight with Shake who now reigns atop the windmill, but is cut off by students who demand that he defeat them first if he wants to take on Shake. There are those that falter at the sight of the wild look in Shiiba’s glare. However, someone lands a punch on Shiiba’s face. His nose bleeds and he goes out cold. Even the school beauty Suwa Haruka is stunned by Shiiba’s loss. On his first day, Shiiba meets first year student Marumo Taiji. Marumo is disinterested in fighting and asks Shiiba, who has been provoking but losing successive fights, if there is meaning in competing for the top. A brutal Oga intends to crush Marumo at his part-time job. At that moment, Shiiba challenges Oga to a fight too ….
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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His Nickname Is Beast (1990)
Plot Summary:
Saveliy Govorkov, an Afghanistan war veteran tries to fight mafia in his own town.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Crows Explode (2014)
Plot Summary:
A month after Genji Takiya graduates, a new battle for supremacy at Suzuran All-Boys High School begins. Transfer student Kaburagi Kazeo combats Kagami Ryohei for the coveted top spot, amidst a brewing inter-school conflict with Kurosaki Industrial High.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, hood, weird
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Derailed (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jin-il, Ga-young, Bong-gil, and Min-kyung are teenage runaways who live together as a family. Jin-il is the leader of the group, earning money by selling stolen goods. As it gets harder to make a living for 4 of them, they plan even more dangerous crimes to survive the cruel society where they have no protection from the adults. One day, the kids steal a car from Hyung-Seok, a karaoke owner who illegally uses underage girls as prostitutes. Outraged, Hyung-Seok tracks them down with his men and forces Ga-young to work at his karaoke bar until they pay back for his car. Even worse, the two friends give up making money and now Jin-il struggles alone to save Ga-young….
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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My Schoolmate the Barbarian (2001)
Plot Summary:
A brainy private school student is transferred to a far less elite institution, where he must fend off classmates who settle scores with fistfights.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Comedy, Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Street (2015)
Plot Summary:
Remo Street is a young fighter who comes from a world where nothing is easy, so when he is faced with the opportunity to train with a world class coach, he has to choose between the long hard road to honor and glory, or succumbing to a brutal future as a cage fighter for the Russian Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The 4th Company (2016)
Plot Summary:
Zambrano is a young criminal with the only hope of joining the legendary prison American football team known as The Dogs of Santa Martha. His hopes end up involving him with organized crime since The Dogs, who are also known as The 4th Company, a squadron of inmates at the service of the administration that controls the jail, its vice and its privileges. Corruption and crime have no limits; they ravage the city with car thefts, bank robberies and other crimes under the auspices of the authorities, the story takes place during the López Portillo presidency and his men.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, art film
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High & Low: The Worst (2019)
Plot Summary:
Oya High was divided into a part-time system and a full-time system. Yoshiki Murayama (Yuki Yamada) has been the leader of Oya High for a while, and he is now bored without challenge inside the ferocious school. Fujio Hanaoka (Kazuma Kawamura) is a new student transferred to the school who has ambitions to challenge Murayama to a man-to-man fight one day after he acquires the position of leader of the Full-time School. However, there are many other people at the Full-time School aiming for the same leadership position. They are the top-ranked team of Yosuke Todoroki, Shibaman, and Tsuji; the Nakagoshi and Nakaoka, who are leading the second-year and first-year students, respectively; the Yasu-Kiyo faction led by Yasushi and Kiyoshi, who rise to prominence through their crazy fighting style. As the new generation, Fujio, together with his childhood friend Tsukasa and his minion Jamuo, has entered the Warring States period of The Full-time School.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Crows Zero (2007)
Plot Summary:
The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself to do it as he reminds him of his youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, semi serious, dorama, epic, manga, anime, action packed, serious
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Far Out (2015)
Plot Summary:
A long time artist and recent criminal, the man known as "The Filmmaker", is forced to go undercover in order to regain his freedom. His goal is to take down a ruthless mob boss named Goldberg. In order to take Goldberg in, he has to go on a heist. When Goldberg asks him to go on three trials in order to gain a place on the heist, the Filmmaker has to go... Far Out.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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For the Emperor (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yi-Hwan is a former professional baseball player. He was involved in fixing games and lost everything. Gang boss Sang-Ha runs a money lending business and a gambling location. He makes Yi-Hwan work for him. Meanwhile, Yi-Hwan falls for bar owner Yeon-Soo.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, erotic, sexy, dark
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Ip Man: The Awakening (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a young Master Ip stops a kidnapping, he ignites a turf war with a ruthless human trafficking ring. In retaliation, the gang kidnaps one of Ip Man’s close friends, forcing him to face the group’s brutal boxing champion head-on.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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High & Low: The Movie 2 - End of Sky (2017)
Plot Summary:
Members of SWORD win against Wangan Rengogun, which is led by Kohaku (Akira). The city becomes peaceful again. Nevertheless, the most brutal gangs, Doubt and Prison Gang, appear. They try to dominate the area controlled by SWORD.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tomb of the River (2021)
Plot Summary:
An action film about the ambitions, conspiracy, and betrayal of different organizations surrounding the life-changing project of building the largest resort in Gangneung.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, noir
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Plan B (2016)
Plot Summary:
When three young martial artists embark on a relentless treasure hunt in order to free their friend from the grasp of a ruthless gangster, they get entangled in a complex conspiracy staged to dethrone Berlin's underworld kingpin.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (2019)
Plot Summary:
Financial tycoon and former triad member Yu Shun-tin tries to eradicate the drug market while 'Jizo' aims to singlehandedly take over Hong Kong's drug exchange as the number one drug lord. Meanwhile, Lam Ching-fung, a cop from the Narcotics Bureau works towards preventing drug abuse but faces uncertainty.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Paradox (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a Hong Kong police negotiator is informed about the sudden disappearance of his 16-year-old daughter in Thailand, he travels there to search for her whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing, noir, neo noir, action thriller
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Toro (2016)
Plot Summary:
Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). After Toro decides to leave Romano to get a life free of crime, his last sting fails, resulting one of his brothers dead and he sent to jail. Five years later, Romano realizes that López, Toro's older brother, is robbing him money from his tourism business and he orders to kidnap Diana, López's little daughter, until this one get back the money. Without options, López visits Toro, now a touristic driver with the third grade prison close to get the parole, who only wants to be free to marry his girlfriend Estrella. When Toro accepts to help López and both meet Romano looking for a solution, Toro ends attacking Romano's men and fleeing with Diana, trying to escape from Romano's revenge. But Romano starts a ruthless searching for they three, meanwhile Toro counts the hours to back the prison according to the third grade.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, hood, perverse, noir
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The Prison (2017)
Plot Summary:
An imprisoned ex-police inspector discovers that the entire penitentiary is controlled by an inmate running a crime syndicate and becomes part of the crime empire.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, crime drama
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The Merciless (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jae-ho, who aims to become the number one in a crime organization, gets to build up trust with Hyun-su, an ambitious newbie in the prison. While they try to take over the organization after the prison release, their ulterior motives starts to emerge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, harsh, disturbing, neo noir, non-linear, noir
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A Dirty Carnival (2006)
Plot Summary:
Byung-du is a 29-year-old career criminal, working for the middle-rank enforcer Sang-chul. Burdened with a terminally ill mother and taking care of younger siblings, Byung-du is feeling financial pressure as a substitute patriarch. When the big boss President Hwang is cornered by a corrupt prosecutor, Byung-du volunteers for a whack job and wins the big man's trust.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, tense, bleak, realistic, neo noir, sincere, suspense
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A Special Lady (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hyeon-jeong, a used-to-be prostitute, is now the NO.2 of the gang which turns into a leading enterprise. Sang-hoon who has been picked up by Hyeon-jeong, becomes the top killer in the gang. Hyeon-jeong is the reason why he bears all the dirty works in the underworld. Dae-sik, a fierce prosecutor, gets caught in a trap by Hyeon-jeong and is now forced to help to build up the gang's business, but seeks for the revenge. Meanwhile, the fatal weakness of Hyeon-jeong, the existence of her hidden son who she secretly gave birth in a prison, is revealed. The boy immediately becomes the target for every opponent including Sang-hoon. Blinded by jealousy, Sang-hoon plans to demolish the gang and negotiates with Dae-sik. Hyeon-jeong now starts the lonely fight to protect her son, who doesn't even know his mother's existence.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, noir
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Strike One (2014)
Plot Summary:
Juan Garcia is a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His role models could not be further apart: his older sister Angie, a single mom, struggling to gain a foothold in the white corporate world and his uncle Manny, an ex-gang member, who has fallen into an acting career playing gang bangers since his release from prison. With the future on his doorstep, Juan, like most boys, can only think of girls and is unaware of the judicial system's hard line stance against gang affiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Righteous Ties (2006)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric but faithful mafia, Chi-sung is sent to prison for his part in a gang fight. But when his parents are attacked by a rival mob and his own people take no action, he realizes that a decade of loyalty towards the gang has become futile. Determined to confront his own boss, he finds a way to escape from prison with his fellow inmates. Meanwhile, his friend Joo-joong is given the task to stop Chi-sung, forcing him to choose between the bond of friendship and loyalty towards the gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, satirical, disturbing
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Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (2014)
Plot Summary:
A laborer moves to Shanghai in the hope of becoming rich. But ends up using his kung fu skills to survive. Remake of The Boxer From Shantung.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful, fast
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Boon (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mercenary Nick Boon is trying to atone for his life as an enforcer for a ruthless syndicate. Running from his past, Boon moves to a remote area in the pacific northwest where he meets a struggling widow and her son. When he finds the pair living in fear of a criminal kingpin, Boon realizes the only way to protect them is to do what he does best: kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hot Blooded (2022)
Plot Summary:
Kuam is a shabby port town in the shadow of stunning port city of Busan. Hee-su is a third-rate gangster who has been acting like a hotel manager under Don Son for 20 years. Seemingly out of nowhere, Yong-kang, who fled the country as a murder suspect, returns home and begins causing trouble all over town, which only adds pressure to Hee-su.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Redeemer (2014)
Plot Summary:
A former hit-man for a drug cartel becomes a vigilante to pay for his sins and find redemption.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, psychological, captivating
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Project Wolf Hunting (2022)
Plot Summary:
While under heavily armed guard, the dangerous convicts aboard a cargo ship unite in a coordinated escape attempt that soon escalates into a bloody, all-out riot. But as the fugitives continue their brutal campaign of terror, they soon discover that not even the most vicious among them is safe from the horror they unknowingly unleashed from the darkness below deck.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, splatter
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Syndicate Smasher (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of mercenaries hired as contract killers are hunted down by the Mafia, the Yakuza, the Russian Mob, and the Tongs all at once.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing