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Plot Summary:
When a cash-strapped man learns his daughter has a brain tumor, he turns to his old Staten Island buddies to get back into their “family business.”.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime thriller
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This Killing Business (2013)
Plot Summary:
Climb inside the mind of a sociopath; an office worker kills his way into management but gets into trouble with his talkative girlfriend and a corrupt detective. Jim Collins has decided to kill his way to the top. He begins by strangling Harry, his manager, one night on an abandoned highway. Complications emerge when, at Harry's wake, Jim learns Gail, his girlfriend, had slept with Harry months ago. Being interrogated by the intimidating detective Scott Hume doesn't help things either. Jim's psychosis kicks into high gear when he decides that Gail, who knows that Jim killed Harry and is going to tell the cop, has to be terminated.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Co-Ed Scandal (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two girls and a boy of barely legal age are caught having sex on tape. Who are they? Why did they do it? Where are they now? The film draws answers from the urban legends that grew around the controversial sex videos and the result is a humorous narrative with elements of mock documentary. Leo (Ryan Eigenmann) is a 21-year-old co-ed student in a prestigious college. He dreams of making and starring in his own "dirty movie"and becomes obsessed with the idea. Leo eggs his girlfriend Claire (Jennifer Lee) to be part of the video. She hesitates but gives in to the idea soon enough when she finds her most compelling reason in the person of a sexy girl named Miles (Avi Siwa). Generally perceived as a tragic event, the Co-ed Scandal is viewed through the film from multiple perspectives ennobling the idea of beauty-and tragedy-as something that ultimately resides in the eye of the beholder.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Crime
Country: Philippines
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Killer Walks Amongst Us (2016)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by the ghosts of the past, an ex FBI agent helps the police on a case of a murdered teenager to track the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Forger (2014)
Plot Summary:
A former child art prodigy and second generation petty thief arranges to buy his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, only to be forced to alter his plans and commit one more job for the man who financed his release.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, touching, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film, crime thriller
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Final Vision (2017)
Plot Summary:
Capt. Jeffery McDonald is convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1979 for the murders of his wife and two children at their Fort Bragg home.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Good Father: The Martin MacNeill Story (2021)
Plot Summary:
Weeks after his wife's suspicious death, Dr Martin MacNeill moves in his mistress under the guise of a live-in nanny. Shocked by her father's actions, his daughter begins to question everything she's known about him while uncovering a web of lies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller
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The Work Wife (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a tense few months following a miscarriage and an unemployment spell, things are finally looking up for Sean (Kevin Sizemore) and Lisa Miller (Elizabeth Harnois) when Sean lands his dream job at an advertising firm. But when Sean’s assistant, Jen (Cerina Vincent), his self-proclaimed “Work Wife,” begins vying for his affection, it soon becomes clear that she will stop at nothing to rip their marriage apart and claim him as her own.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Justice with Judge Mablean (2014)
Plot Summary:
Judge Mablean Ephriam, who presided over "Divorce Court" from 1999-2006 as the first star of the revived version of the show, returns to the courtroom genre with his half-hour series that deals with life and the law. The former Los Angeles-based prosecutor takes on the typical cases that are found on TV court shows. The arbitrator says that her show "will be life because everything we do, it involves the law.".
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Equal Standard (2020)
Plot Summary:
An NYPD Detective is shot by one of his own, benevolent brothers in uniform. Communities are ignited - to march for justice. Gangs put their differences aside - for a united fight, an equal opportunity. “That people not be judged by the color of their skin but for the content of their character.” The movement and unity impacts City society and leads to a Blue Wall intervention within the Police force. White cops lust for change and act on it - by flushing out racism. Not an easy fight. In the end, what was considered impossible, became possible.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Dark Nest (2011)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Broken Shore (2013)
Plot Summary:
An evocative crime thriller that captures the chilling action and sharp wit of Peter Temple's acclaimed novel The Broken Shore. In this gripping adaptation, Detective Joe Cashin uncovers a web of lies, betrayal and police corruption in a small coastal town where tensions are at boiling point and the shocking face behind the community's respectable mask is slowly unveiled.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Reckless (2018)
Plot Summary:
A broke mechanic turns a bank loan denial into an impromptu robbery that puts him on the run with his best friend and a starlet they hold hostage.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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A Bunch of Bastards (2021)
Plot Summary:
An isolated villa, a family just like the others. Michele has remarried beautiful Damiana, and lives with her and her daughter Fiore, a seductive teen with whom he has an intricate relationship. In the middle of the night, Sergio, an ex-con, bursts in the villa and abducts the family. his mission: retrieve and bring back to Caligola, the man who hired him, some important documents, now seeminlgy buried somewhere in the greenhouse near the house.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Jamaican Mafia (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jamaican Gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Once Fallen (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his father, (Ed Harris, Golden Globe® winner), who is the head of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and serving a life sentence for murder. Upon his release, his dreams of a crime-free future begin to disintegrate when he is forced to assume his best friend's outrageous debt to a local mobster. Despite being thrust back into a world of organized fighting, drug dealing and ties to corrupt police agents, Chance falls in love with Pearl (Academy Award® nominee Taraji P. Henson) and the prospect of living a normal life seems almost within reach. But will he be able to escape the crimes of his father and his past?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, psychological, bleak, realistic, fast
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Burning Daylight (2010)
Plot Summary:
Based on three short stories by American writer Jack London, Burning Daylight follows the lives of three thieves, three Wall Street bankers and a Klondike millionaire, tied together by one ruthless woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, suspense, surprise ending
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Young and Dangerous: Reloaded (2013)
Plot Summary:
On a dark Mongkok night, May, the cousin of Dai Tin-yee (Dominic Ho), was gang-raped to death by Med King (Deep Ng) and his men. The furious Tin-yee, together with his buddies, Ho-Nam(Him Law), Chicken (Oscar Leung), Pou-Pan (Jazz Lam) tracked down Med King to revenge May’s death. As Med King was under the wing of Ugly Kwan (Sammy Sum), a leader of the Hung Hing triad, Kwan gave orders to get rid of Ho-Nam by all means….
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Original Gangster (2020)
Plot Summary:
The stoic chronicles of Castor, orphaned as a child, forced to survive in the wild and his colorful journey through the criminal underworld of London.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Sins of the Father (2019)
Plot Summary:
Police unearth a sinful conspiracy when they investigate the murder of a pastor's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Masked Mobsters (2007)
Plot Summary:
From petty theft on the benches of Belleville to the over-publicised hold-ups of the large Parisian banks, this is the spectacular rise of Simon and his gang. They are capable of emptying a series of safes under the very nose of the police who are bewildered by the calm audacity shown by the group.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Gatao 2: Rise of the King (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ren has finally succeeded his boss as the head of the North Fort Gang. For so long, his ambitions had been held back; now, he can realize them. But the ruthless Jian returns with his own gang. Though Ren and Jian were once like brothers, Ren's position is challenged, causing tensions with Qing, his loyal captain. Now that former friends are enemies, what is the price of loyalty? What will be left of friendship when the smoke of battle clears?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Crime
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Street Thief (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kaspar Carr is a professional burglar who lives and works in Chicago. Carr loves his job and is good at it, and two documentary filmmakers are granted access to his private world when he agrees to let them make a film about him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, suspense, psychological, crime drama, crime thriller, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Beyond the Law (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a former detective learns of the murder of his estranged son, he ventures back to the darkened streets he once knew so well. Armed, dangerous and with nothing to lose, he must take on the ruthless local mob in his mission for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, detective
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The Fall of the Krays (2016)
Plot Summary:
The brutal brothers from Bethnal Green are back and bloodier than ever in Fall of the Krays. Following on from the ferocious Rise Of The Krays, Fall of the Krays picks up the story of the infamous Firm as the cracks start to show in the brothers business plans and their sanity. Having secured their empire and their infamy, the brothers must now fight to keep hold of both as the obsession of one police officer becomes entwined with a burgeoning romance and a dangerous state of mind for Reggie and Ronnie respectively.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Katsuragi Murder Case (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Katsuragi Household that runs a small store may appear serene. But as the younger son Minoru commits a murder on the street, the family is exposed to the public. Is there anybody that is behind this murder case?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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8 of Diamonds (2006)
Plot Summary:
A diamond heist goes wrong when one of the thieves gets shot during the escape after swallowing a priceless diamond. Deception, blackmail, and murder schemes overshadow the lives of the eight people left chasing the diamond.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Blowback (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a master thief is sabotaged during a bank heist and left for dead, he seeks revenge on his former crew one target at a time. Now, with the cops and the mob closing in, he's in the race of his life to reclaim an untold fortune in cryptocurrency from those who double-crossed him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dead Draw (2016)
Plot Summary:
25 million dollars, 8 safety deposit boxes, and months before anyone will know it’s gone. But Harrison’s perfect heist turns deadly when his safe-cracker, Mack, discovers their getaway pilot brutally murdered. Someone knew about the job, someone set them up. Stranded in a frozen hangar, held hostage by someone outside, loyalty turns to suspicion and friends turn to enemies. Now it’s a race against time as the band of thieves try to uncover the rat and escape their troubled pasts…if they can survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Anti-Social (2015)
Plot Summary:
Central London, today; Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Marcus is an armed robber on a jewellery store crime-wave. For the two brothers, being Anti-Social is a way of life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime
Country: Hungary, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating
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El Padrino II: Border Intrusion (2011)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing