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Plot Summary:
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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One Way (2022)
Plot Summary:
On the run with a bag full of cash after a robbing his former crime boss—and a potentially fatal wound—Freddy slips onto a bus headed into the unrelenting California desert. With his life slipping through his fingers, Freddy is left with very few choices to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Killing Joan (2018)
Plot Summary:
An enforcer for the mob enacts revenge on those who wronged her.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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The System (2022)
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When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
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Angie: Lost Girls (2020)
Plot Summary:
After escaping from a sex trafficking ring, one teenage girl struggles to reconnect with herself and her family. To rescue her helpless friends, she must confront her own fears and help lead the police to her traffickers - at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 108 min
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Top Cop (1990)
Plot Summary:
A city finds it is in the grips of a ruthless drug kingpin with little hope of any respite. A cop with an unorthodox style loses his partner after he is murdered by the drug lord's henchmen. Tired of the corruption and strife the criminals have brought to the city, our cop takes on the drug lord with the hopes of cleaning u p the town and avenging his partner's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, detective, cult film
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The One Man Jury (1978)
Plot Summary:
Officer Jim Wade is a loose cannon on the force with a reputation roughing up suspects, informants, witnesses, and just about everybody else who rubs him the wrong way. When women start being killed by mysterious serial murderer called The Slasher, Wade vows to put a stop to the killing spree, regardless of whether through legal means or not.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Double Jeopardy (1996)
Plot Summary:
A naive 16 year old waitress falls for a corrupt, married police officer. When she falls pregnant, her lover plots her murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
Plot Summary:
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, psychological, cult classic, captivating, suspense, retro, perverse
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The Son of No One (2011)
Plot Summary:
A rookie cop is assigned to the 118 Precinct in the same district where he grew up. The Precinct Captain starts receiving letters about two unsolved murders that happened many years ago in the housing projects when the rookie cop was just a kid. These letters bring back bad memories and old secrets that begin to threaten his career and break up his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, rough, realistic, surprise ending, disturbing, suspenseful, twisted, independent film
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Center of the Web (1992)
Plot Summary:
An actor is wrongly taken as a professional killer by a band planning to murder the Governor. Then he is hired by the Security Dept. to try to unmask and to catch the leaders.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspense
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Shadowboxer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mikey and Rose are professional assassins. They are also lovers, and once upon a time Rose also knew Mikey's father. During an elaborate hit job for a malicious gangster, Rose fails to kill the main target, the gangster's pregnant girlfriend. Instead, she delivers her baby and convinces Mikey to help her protect them both. As Rose weakens from cancer, Mikey becomes breadwinner for this unusual family. But tranquility will not last.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, neo noir, noir, anamorphic, gloomy
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Broken Horses (2015)
Plot Summary:
The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, tense, neo noir, neo western
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Heat (1986)
Plot Summary:
Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together to move to Venice, Italy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Power of Few (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spies, cops and armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. Five unusual characters are unknowingly connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation, as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, interesting
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Swelter (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after their casino heist, four escaped convicts trace their former partner to a desert town, where he is now a lawman with no memory of his criminal past.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, cult classic, rough, independent film, neo noir, neo western
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Desperate Measures (1998)
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San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most freedom. With McCabe's escape, the entire hospital becomes a battleground and Connor must pursue and, ironically, protect the deadly fugitive who is his son's only hope for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, rough, emotional, breathtaking, dark, cult classic, disgusting, surprise ending, psychological thriller
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Tell (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his wife, his parole officer, and two corrupt detectives from stealing it from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film
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Double Tap (1997)
Plot Summary:
A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Security (2017)
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An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has fled the hijacking of a Police motorcade that was transporting her to testify as a witness in a trial. Hot on her heels is the psychopathic hijacker and his team of henchmen, who will stop at nothing to extract and eliminate the witness.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspense, suspenseful, perverse
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Cohen and Tate (1988)
Plot Summary:
A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and resourcefulness to play them off against each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: neo noir, entertaining, perverse, cult classic, independent film, surprise ending, road movie, psychological, serious, realistic
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Point of No Return (1993)
Plot Summary:
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a phantom killer and subdued into obedience. She gets a new cover identity as saleswoman Claudia Anne Doran. She also gets a wonderful house-mate, building super J.P., a broad-minded, gentle photographer. The two fall in love, and that complicates hit jobs. His good influence extends to breeding in her a conscience that places love over business, unlike Bob's agency.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, serious, neo noir, breathtaking, political, satanic, anamorphic
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Killshot (2008)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, talky, intense, neo noir, action drama, scary, exciting
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Kill Me Again (1989)
Plot Summary:
After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him without paying. Jack follows her to Vegas and learns he's not the only one after her. Vince has discovered that she's still alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, surprise ending, detective, road movie, mind bending, offbeat, suspense thriller, twisted, independent film
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Get Carter (2000)
Plot Summary:
Remake of the British classic. Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: stylized, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, action packed, disgusting, black comedy
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Assassins (1995)
Plot Summary:
Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, clever, action packed, intense
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Plot Summary:
Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 168000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: stylized, grindhouse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, action packed, neo western
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Night Game (1989)
Plot Summary:
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film, rough, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Blue Steel (1990)
Plot Summary:
A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, suspenseful, detective, rough, disturbing, erotic, cult classic, stylized
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Desperado (1995)
Plot Summary:
A gunslinger is embroiled in a war with a local drug runner.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 195000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: stylized, grindhouse, action packed, intense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, bloody, cult classic, neo western
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Straw Dogs (2011)
Plot Summary:
L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife, Amy, to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, enigmatic, rough, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, erotic, controversial