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Plot Summary:
Based on "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a woman labor organizer in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30's meets up with rabble-rousing union man 'Big' Bill Shelly and they team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, lyrical, rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, serious, independent film, psychotronic
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The Lady in Red (1979)
Plot Summary:
1930's gangster era film about Dillinger and his last girl. Written by John Sayles.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, psychotronic, erotic, sentimental
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The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976)
Plot Summary:
Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage, it begins a thrill-packed crime spree across the state of Texas.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychotronic, grindhouse, action thriller, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Public Eye (1992)
Plot Summary:
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, crime drama, romantic drama, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Traveller (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended. He is at first rejected, but cousin Bokky takes him on as an apprentice. Pat learns the game while Bokky falls in love and desires a different life. Written by Jeff Hole.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: road movie, neo noir, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, light, romantic
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Big Bad Mama (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, sexy, independent film, realistic, witty, semi serious, neo noir
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Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Plot Summary:
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: road movie, surreal, atmospheric, art house, visual, stylized, meditative, light, realistic, humorous
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Plot Summary:
A gloomy vision of the possibility of decent relations between whites and blacks anywhere, including the South. Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: social, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, southern gothic, crime drama, black cinema
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Bloody Mama (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker (Shelley Winters) grows into a violently powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons, and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman (Don Stroud), who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred (Robert Walden), an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd (Robert De Niro), who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, bleak, neo noir, hood, cult classic, independent film, psychological, tense, rough
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Thieves Like Us (1974)
Plot Summary:
Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to turn his back on crime. The film is based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: neo noir, road movie, sincere, bleak, serious, realistic
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Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976)
Plot Summary:
A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, road movie, neo noir, poliziottesco
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Tropical Snow (1988)
Plot Summary:
New York is the dream city of Tavo and Marina, where the lovers hope to start a better life; at home in Bogota they have to work as pocket pickers at the airport to support their families. Dealer Oskar can persuade them to smuggle drugs in their stomachs on plane to New York - although both know of the risks, since Marina's sister died on a similar journey. However on arrival at the airport in New York they show nerves and all their dreams start to shatter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo noir, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
Plot Summary:
Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers he's a con man who seduces lonely single women, kills them and then takes their money. She poses as Ray's sister and joins Ray on a wild killing spree, fueled by her lingering concern that Ray will leave her for one of his marks.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, disturbing, cult classic, grindhouse, black and white, psychological, stylized, slasher, depressing, controversial
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Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, intense, depressing, rough, intellectual, suspenseful, serious, independent film, clever
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Slingshot (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, sentimental, touching, exciting, light, captivating
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Queen & Slim (2019)
Plot Summary:
An exploration of America’s social and political climate through the lens of a genre-defying love story. The film centers on a black man and black woman who go on a first date that goes awry after the two are pulled over by a police officer at a traffic stop. They kill the police officer in self-defense and rather than turn themselves in, they go on the run.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: road movie, thought provoking, exciting, sad, captivating, disturbing, romantic, sexy, neo noir, political
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River's Edge (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions vary.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, independent film, dark, grim, creepy, cult classic, controversial, psychological, bleak, retro
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The Yards (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, neo noir, emotional, talky, intense, rough, realistic, atmospheric, psychological
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Billy Bathgate (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: stylized, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, light, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure
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The Wanderers (1979)
Plot Summary:
The streets of the Bronx are owned by 60’s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, hood, sentimental, rough, serious, realistic, crying, inspirational, unusual plot structure
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The Long Riders (1980)
Plot Summary:
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, factual, harsh, rough, suspenseful, serious, perverse, exciting, realistic, light
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Dillinger (1973)
Plot Summary:
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934. After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: noir, grindhouse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, dark comedy, independent film
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The Sugarland Express (1974)
Plot Summary:
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: road movie, black comedy, cult classic, suspenseful, retro, sexy, offbeat, southern gothic, anamorphic, serious
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Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Plot Summary:
The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, melancholic, heartbreaking, emotional, cult classic, visually stunning, independent film, atmospheric, stylized
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Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
Plot Summary:
A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, atmospheric, melancholic, surreal, disturbing, talky, intense, serious, realistic
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Fruitvale Station (2013)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: emotional, sad, hood, heartbreaking, intense, sincere, thought provoking, realistic, depressing, social
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Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Plot Summary:
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, thought provoking, hood, cult classic, brutal, bleak, independent film, rough, suspenseful
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Hoffa (1992)
Plot Summary:
Jack Nicholson's portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro (Danny DeVito). The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt all the way to a conclusion that negates the theory that he disappeared in 1975.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, factual, intense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, political, sad
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Steal This Movie (2000)
Plot Summary:
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: melancholic, talky, stylized, serious, captivating, sincere, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, contemplative
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Hoodlum (1997)
Plot Summary:
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running "the numbers". When, Madam Queen, the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem, is arrested. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson takes over the business and must resist against the invasion from merciless mobster Dutch Shultz.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: hood, stylized, neo noir, black and white, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, clever
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True Romance (1993)
Plot Summary:
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 239000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: stylized, neo noir, dark comedy, intense, suspense, serious, suspenseful, sexy, talky, romantic