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Plot Summary:
Chief of the ‘Special Crime Unit’, OH Gu-tak, looks for the former gangster, PARK Woong-chul, whom he had worked with before, and recruits a con artist, KWAK No-soon, and a convicted cop, KO Yoo-sung in the new team. With new blood, the ‘Bad Guys’ have become stronger and tougher. As they dig deeper into the case, they sense that a much bigger crime organization is behind it all and they begin the hunt for bad guys….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, absurd, disturbing, psychological
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Midnight FM (2010)
Plot Summary:
Popular TV anchorwoman & late night radio host Sun-Young prepares to work her final radio program. After this program she will prepare to take her ill daughter to America the following morning. During the radio show Ko Sun-Young receives a startling text message. At Ko Sun-Young’s apartment, her ill daughter is being watched by Sun-Young’s sister Ah-Young. Then, a man named Dong-Su breaks into the apartment with a large wrench. He knocks Ah-Young unconscious, but is unable to locate Sun-Young’s daughter – who is hiding in a closet. Dong-Su then sends the text message to Sun-Young instructing her to follow his directions and not to tell anyone.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious, suspense, disturbing, psychological, twisted, realistic
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Asura: The City of Madness (2016)
Plot Summary:
A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor, in this scintillating crime drama from Korean maestro Kim Sung-soo (The Warrior).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, noir, crime drama
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The Villagers (2018)
Plot Summary:
A gym teacher and his female student look for her missing friend. But as they investigate, they find that her disappearance is a part of a larger conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The City of Violence (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tae-su, a detective fighting organized crime, returns to his hometown for his high school friend Wang-jae's funeral. There, he meets his old friends Pil-ho, Dong-hwan and Seok-hwan and they reminisce. Suspecting something fishy about Wang-jae's death, Tae-su and Seok-hwan start investigating it, each in his own way. Their investigations lead to a land development project that Pil-ho is directing.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, heroic, crime drama, independent film
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iSmart Shankar (2019)
Plot Summary:
A contract killer goes on the run after eliminating a target and eventually finds himself linked to a slain cop whose memory is transferred to his brain.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Nibunan (2017)
Plot Summary:
A senior cop and his team of two are after a serial killer who is giving them nightmares. Shocked after finding who the next possible victim is going to be, the cop tracks down the assassin with the help of various clues.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, kannada
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Zero Tolerance (2015)
Plot Summary:
Johnny and Peter, former paramilitary operatives, search Bangkok - leaving carnage in their wake - to find the men who killed Johnny's daughter, Angel.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bad Guys (2014)
Plot Summary:
To combat rising violent crimes, the Police Chief asks Detective Oh Goo Tak to form a team consisting of criminals. He is currently suspended from the police force for using excessive force. He then gathers team members: Park Woong Chul who is a gangster, Lee Jung Moon who is the youngest serial killer with extraordinary intelligence and Jung Tae Soo who is a contract killer. Police Inspector Yoo Mi Young also joins the team and she tries to have these guys work as a team by dealing with them rationally and sometimes emotionally.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspenseful, rough, bleak, detective, dorama
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The Beast (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two rival detectives with different methods try to solve the murder of a missing girl after discovering her mutilated body in the tidelands of Incheon.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: disturbing, captivating, suspense, detective
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Mumbai Mirror (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mumbai Mirror revolves around Abhijeet Patil, a hardcore action packed cop, who can neither tolerate violence against women nor crime in his area. He comes across a drug racket led by Shetty, who runs several bars in the city. One of the dancers, Rani, knows Abhijeet well and seduces him. She keeps using him under Shetty's directions without realizing that Abhijeet is not the usual cop they were thinking him to be. But soon, a lot of players get involved in this game: a game that takes various twists and turns, with most of them against Abhijeet. But he's sharp enough to fight it out, all alone. With the help of Jia, a reporter from Mumbai Mirror and his colleagues, Abhijeet sets out on a rampage that takes various paths with various turns leading to the final showdown : which can be won by nothing but by checkmating the opponent.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: exciting, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Betrayals & Bullets: The Dame (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the murder of his girlfriend, a gang enforcer sets out to find out who perpetrated the killing.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Cold Eyes (2013)
Plot Summary:
HA Yoon-ju becomes the newest member to a unit within the Korean Police Forces Special Crime Department that specializes in surveillance activities on high profile criminals. She teams up with HWANG Sang-Jun, the veteran leader of the unit, and tries to track down James who is the cold-hearted leader of an armed criminal organization.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, tense, captivating, suspense, stylized, action thriller
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Johan Falk 13 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Johan Falk is with the wife of a dead mob boss down to Latvia to try to solve a mystery that has eluded him for three years. What Johan finds downstairs in a cottage outside Riga shocks not only himself but also the Gothenburg police special unit GSI 's new chief Sophie Nordh and the former chief Patrik Agrell. At the same time a Latvian mafia group is picking up hidden and forgotten Soviet military containers from the water-filled pits nearby. Containers filled with weapons. And everything is heading to Sweden! At the same time most of the original members of the Rydellgang are being released from a long prison sentence.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Johan Falk: Slutet (2015)
Plot Summary:
The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's family, to try to kill his wife, could be the biggest mistake the organization has done. GSI closes up around Johan's family, and the final battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Deal (2015)
Plot Summary:
A cop catches a serial killer who murdered his sister but never finds her body. The lack of closure torments him and drives his brother-in-law insane, who makes a deal with the mafia for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Roundup (2022)
Plot Summary:
The ‘Beast Cop’ Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against tourists for several years.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, crime drama, detective
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One on One (2014)
Plot Summary:
On May 9th, a female high school student was brutally murdered. There are 7 suspects and 7 shadows that terrorize them. Who are they and which one of them is you?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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A Hard Day (2014)
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On the way to his mother’s funeral, a detective accidentally hits a person with his car. He takes the body with him and puts it into his mother’s coffin. The moment he feels relieved, he receives a call. This caller insists that he saw the detective’s hit-and-run, but instead of asking for money, he wants to know about the body’s whereabouts, leading to a do-or-die showdown of the witness and detective.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, exciting, serious, dark comedy, psychological thriller, noir, neo noir
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The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil (2019)
Plot Summary:
In Cheonan, a serial murder case takes place, but the case becomes more and more of a mystery. Only Tae-suk, a cop, immediately senses that all the cases are by the same killer and starts investigation. One day, Dong-soo, a gang boss, got attacked by a suspicious man, and Tae-suk realizes that this man is the serial killer, K. Now, Dong-soo becomes the only witness and a survived victim from K.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, factual, twisted, tense, bloody, slasher, realistic, hood, cult classic, crime thriller
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No Mercy (2010)
Plot Summary:
Forensic pathologist Kang (Seol Kyeong-gu) is assigned to examine the dismembered corpse of a female murder victim. Detective Min (Han Hye-jin) points to a fanatic environmentalist, Lee Sung-ho (Ryoo Seung-beom), as the primary suspect. But when Kang’s daughter is kidnapped, a manipulative game begins between Kang and Lee, who holds secrets about the homicide case.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, detective, captivating, neo noir, dark
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Confession of Murder (2012)
Plot Summary:
On the day the 15-year statute of limitations expired on a high profile serial murder case that claimed the lives of 10 women, a family member of the victim throws himself off the building in front of Choi Hyeong-goo, the detective in charge of the case. Two years later, a man called Lee Doo-seok publishes a book titled "I am the Murderer" claiming responsibility for the murders that took place 17 years ago. His book becomes a bestseller because of the author’s charming looks and his vivid depiction of the crime. The detective and the self-proclaimed murderer meet face to face on a television debate show. Believing that Lee is nothing but a con artist, Detective Choi renews his search for the ultimate truth. Then another man appears suddenly, claiming he is the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, rough, detective, stylized, psychological, twisted, psychological thriller, noir, mind bending
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A Bittersweet Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-Woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Heesoo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with another, younger man, with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, psychological, tense, atmospheric, exciting, serious, brutal, neo noir, bloody
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Missing Noir M (2015)
Plot Summary:
Gil Soo-Hyun is extremely intelligent. At the age of 10, he attended Harvard University. After graduating there, he decided to work at the FBI and worked there for 10 years. Afterwards, he decided to come back to South Korea. He now works as the leader of the Special Missing Persons Unit. The unit deals with about 1% of special missing cases involving violent crimes. His appearance borders on perfection, but he holds a secret. Detective Oh Dae-Young joins the Special Missing Persons Unit. He has worked as a detective for 20 years and he has an obsession in observing the law. He is known as a master of missing person cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Policeman's Lineage (2022)
Plot Summary:
A by-the-book police officer is assigned to secretly investigate a team leader who believes that the rules shouldn't stop an investigation. As the officer investigates further, his own attitudes begin to mirror the team leader's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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V.I.P. (2017)
Plot Summary:
A son to a high-ranked official in North Korea commits a series of murders going across the countries around the world. The movie depicts the following events as South Korea, North Korea and Interpol start chasing down after him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir, noir
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Black Luck (2016)
Plot Summary:
A hitman in hiding struggles to keep his monsters at bay when his dark past comes calling. Some days your LUCK just goes BLACK.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bloody, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The Man from Nowhere (2010)
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His only friend called him 'the man from nowhere'... Taesik, a former special agent becomes a loner after losing his wife in a miserable accident and lives a bitter life running a pawnshop. He only has a few customers and a friend named Somi, a little girl next door. As Taesik spends more and more time with Somi, he gets attached to her. Then Somi is kidnapped by a gang, and as Taesik tries to save Somi by becoming deeply associated with the gang his mysterious past is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, brutal, exciting, touching, emotional, neo noir, bleak, suspense, harsh
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The Chaser (2008)
Plot Summary:
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, bloody, psychological, suspenseful, detective, realistic, serious, psychological thriller, bleak
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I Saw the Devil (2010)
Plot Summary:
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Soo-hyun, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 143000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, bloody, suspense, serious, twist ending, rough