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Plot Summary:
After narrowly escaping arrest in Prague, Czech mobster Radim "Kácko" Kraviec flees first to Seychelles and then to South Africa where he continues with his criminal endeavours. However, his illicit activities cannot go unnoticed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Bandit (2022)
Plot Summary:
After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity in Canada and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewellery stores while being hunted by a rogue task force. Based on the story of The Flying Bandit.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: suspense, crime drama, detective
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People's Hero (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ex-gangster Sonny Koo finds himself in the middle of a bank holdup by two inexperienced crooks. The robbery goes awry, but before order can be restored, Sonny assumes control. He proceeds to turn the hostage situation to his advantage, and uses the bank's customers and personnel as leverage to free his girlfriend from prison. On the outside, sympathetic cop Ah Sai debates with his captain over how to handle the situation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: heroic, detective
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Deadly Relations (1993)
Plot Summary:
Leonard Fagot has four daughters and loves them so much, that he usurps his control over them. He lets them know how he feels about the men they date. And if he disapproves of them, he probably will have them killed to get them out of his daughters' life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Gangster Ka (2015)
Plot Summary:
A film based on a book by Jaroslav Kmenta tells the story of a mafioso who got rich by tax fraud of billions of crowns in transactions with petroleum products and who later tried to gain control of the state-owned petroleum concern. The main character is the gangster Radim Kraviec (Hynek Cermák). He was always capable of violence, but when his father is abducted and killed by a competing mafia, he is changed into a murdering monster.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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A Promise to Carolyn (1996)
Plot Summary:
When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sad, detective
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A Sense of Freedom (1981)
Plot Summary:
A Sense of Freedom is a 1979 British crime film directed by John Mackenzie for Scottish television. The film starred David Hayman and featured Hector Nicol & Fulton Mackay, is a based on the book of the true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Sametoví vrazi (2005)
Plot Summary:
A thriller loosely based on one of the most violent Czech criminal cases of the nineties, popularly known as the Orlík murders. The film delves into the motivation behind the killings, exposing their exceptional cruelty and an absolute absence of moral values. The perpetrators executed four people on their way to achieving material gain. Two of the bodies were found at the bottom of Orlík reservoir, the third perished in a bomb blast, and the forth was shot at home.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags:
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Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes (2001)
Plot Summary:
The real-life case based on the horrific crimes of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the mother and son duo who specialized in theft, fraud and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, touching
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The Stranger (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, dramatic, detective
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Waters Rising (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Desire Projects in New Orleans who both end up in Houston after the storm. The storm twists the fates of these two men. The first, Jay Dee, was a feared and powerful crime boss who is humbled when he loses everything and winds up as a lowly clerk at a retail chain store. The second, Shawn, an underachieving poor kid from the neighborhood gets a fresh start and becomes a writer/novelist.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, independent film, disaster movie
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One Eyed King (2001)
Plot Summary:
Residents of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen attempt to balance family and friendship against the harsh street life that unfolds around them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Crook: It's Good to Be Bad (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jai Dixit sells pirated DVDs and is caught by his uncle Joseph. His uncle changes his personality and name to Suraj Bhardwaj and sends him to Australia. At the airport he meets Romi Latti, a student on a scholarship to Univeristy College. He also meets Suhani who comes to pick Romi up. He impersonates Romi as he is attracted to Suhani. When she finds the truth he runs away. One day while talking to his uncle at grocery store he finds few Australians attacking the owner because he is a Muslim. Suraj finds the gun and holds the attackers at gunpoint. When the police arrive, he remembers his uncles advise and runs again. He meets Nicole, sister of the attackers, who works in a strip club. When times comes to decide between Suhani and Nicole, he chooses Suhani. Later Suhani's brother Samarth kidnaps Nicole, when Suraj goes to save her he is accidentally shot by Samarth. Romi attacks Samarth and kills him. The movie ends with Suhani and Suraj getting back together.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, light
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Murder or Memory: A Moment of Truth Movie (1994)
Plot Summary:
A mother fights to prove her 14-year-old son is innocent of a murder he confessed to under hypnosis.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: factual
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Murder on the Cape (2017)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-work fisherman has an affair with a fashion writer wintering on the Cape. She returns two years later with his child, and when she is murdered, the fisherman is the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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3 Acts of Murder (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1928 Arthur Upfield, Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. This true story resulted in one of Australia’s most sensational murder trials of the 1930’s and catapulted Upfield’s name onto the world stage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective
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Bonded by Blood 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the shadow of the Range Rover murders, drugs, violence and revenge continue to reign in a criminal underworld even darker and deadlier than before as a new generation of Essex Boys begin to carve their bloody mark.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Joe Cinque's Consolation (2016)
Plot Summary:
In late 1997, Anu Singh, an attractive law student in Canberra, made plans to kill her boyfriend Joe Cinque after throwing a series of macabre farewell dinner parties. The dinner guests, most of them university students, had heard various rumours about her plan, but nobody warned Joe. Joe's death and the subsequent trial drew the attention of the whole country, as the broader community struggled to come terms with how a life could fall through so many hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Getting Gotti (1994)
Plot Summary:
The fall of mob boss John Gotti.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Rampage (2017)
Plot Summary:
The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, in the summer of 1978.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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A Killer in the Family (1983)
Plot Summary:
A father serving time for murder convinces his three teenage sons to break him out of jail.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Held for Ransom (1976)
Plot Summary:
Kidnapped, blindfolded, transported in the trunk of a car, this is a true story of a Christian woman who experienced the peace and grace through her abduction that only Christ can give.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Boston Strangler (2023)
Plot Summary:
Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: detective, period piece, historical drama, interesting
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Public Enemies (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ma Barker (Theresa Russell) and her sons rob banks, shoot people and wind up at the top of the FBI's "most wanted" list in the 1930s.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Angel of Evil (2010)
Plot Summary:
Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested control of the Milan underworld with a string of high profile robberies, kidnappings and murders. In the process, he captivated the public and earned the nickname ‘il bel Renè’ – for his devilish charm and handsome face. Arrested multiple times, his daring escapes from prison enraged the government, angered his rivals and fed his legend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Romania
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, sincere, controversial
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Enemies of the State (2010)
Plot Summary:
Crime thriller inspired by the story of Jiri Kajinek, which is considered the first bounty hunter in the Czech Republic. Thanks to his escape from the prison fortress Mirov it became a legend and the most wanted man in Europe. Five weeks while eluding the police, is still shrouded in mystery. Kajínek Film is a powerful story of the most famous prisoner int the Czech Republic in our story of double murder, the story of lawyer looking for new evidence, the story of the underworld and its penetration into the government and handling of the story. George is a victim of conspiracy or Kajínek cold-blooded killer? Trying to prove his innocence or to intimidate and influence witnesses?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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McVicar (1980)
Plot Summary:
John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, independent film, cult film
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The Roubal Case (2021)
Plot Summary:
The mini-series are inspired by the real, albeit incredibly terrifying, events and actions that Ivan Roubal committed in the 1990s. Hynek Čermák is in the role of one of the biggest serial killers in Czechoslovak history.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, period piece, poliziottesco
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Major Case Squad (2014)
Plot Summary:
A criminal series set in Czech Republic, where a group of top class detectives are solving cases based on a true stories.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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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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Unabomber: The True Story (1996)
Plot Summary:
The real story behind the hunt for Theodore J. Kaczynski, later known as the Unabomber, a terrorist who sent several bombs through the mail, alarming authorities and society. The movie follows a postal inspector who tracks down the suspect; a obstinate detective; and Kaczynski's brother, who suspected of Ted after the publishing of his manifesto explaining the reasons for the bombings.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
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